The wheel, the gibbet, the strappado, kept good guard around the place of refuge, and lay in watch incessantly for their prey, like sharks around a vessel.

Nazi interrogators tortured Jean Amery though the method referred to as strappado or corda.

It's like the Spanish Inquisition torture Strappado -- you feel as if your shoulder is being dislocated".

What about bringing back stoning, pillorying and stocks, scaphism, tying to a stake to be devoured by lions or dogs, hang drawing and quartering, strappado, racks, pit and pendulum, hand crushing (popular with the Gestapo), and many more heinious ways to kill or torture people.

Abu Sharar was also threatened with the imposition of sanctions against her, including travel ban and the usage of strappado torture; where a person gets hung for hours from the wrists.

First, the strappado (pull, or garrucha, pulley, in Spanish), the "Queen of Torments," (48) where the accused, with hands tied behind the back, is raised by ropes and pulleys.

He claimed he spent three months in a 6ft by 4ft room before the Americans "ew him to Afghanistan, where he was regularly beaten and placed in the "strappado" position - hanging from the ceiling with his feet barely touching the ground.

(4) Durante sua prisao, Machiavelli foi submetido a uma especie de tortura conhecida como strappado, a qual consiste na amarracao dos pulsos da vitima as costas, tambem presos a uma corda que passa por um lugar alto.

Such "high value detainees" were exposed to death threats with handguns and power drills, water-boarded more than 180 consecutive times, and subjected to lifting "off the floor by arms, while arms were bound behind his back with a belt," a medieval form of torture known as strappado. (3)