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the sum powered by law bringing into force are the four forms of torture known as pinching the ears, stretching on chains, crushing the fingers, and beating the palms of the hands in a manner
The forms of torture such as double-stick, thumbscrew, cangue, and bamboo of the regulation size, which have already been incorporated in the Penal Code. The illegal forms of torture in the examination of those who may have been dragged into a case through no fault of their own, and the gratuitous and wanton harsh treatment of a prisoner under trial, resulting in his death, should as before be denounced and punished. As regards those tortures which are inflicted by the rack, suspension, beating the ankles, pricking the fingers, and those which are specially forbidden by law, such as the jacal, double-stick, the wooden cudgel, the bamboo with the root and the double cangue joints not pared off, besides that general class which is forbidden by law, but the varieties of which are not specifically enumerated, all of these are distinctly illegal, and a severe and rectified use of them should be put on trial
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