Even so, throughout the middle ages, there was one ‘out-of-step’ European country,
England, which declined to adopt the use of torture as a judicial method – other than
the ‘pressing of prisoners’, as described in Dilemma 89. Barbaro, a Venetian
ambassador of the sixteenth century observed that the English were concerned that
torture of the innocent ‘spoils the body and an innocent life’ and strangely thought it
better to ‘release a criminal than punish an innocent man’!
Today, torture is alive and well in many countries.
Even so, throughout the middle ages, there was one ‘out-of-step’ European country,England, which declined to adopt the use of torture as a judicial method – other thanthe ‘pressing of prisoners’, as described in Dilemma 89. Barbaro, a Venetianambassador of the sixteenth century observed that the English were concerned thattorture of the innocent ‘spoils the body and an innocent life’ and strangely thought itbetter to ‘release a criminal than punish an innocent man’!Today, torture is alive and well in many countries.
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