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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 25, No. 5. 1962.
Torture Again
Torture Again
Part I of this article had a small part dealing with torture. Here in the words of Eymeric are a few of the rules observed when subjecting a prisoner to torture:—
| "A. | Torture is inflicted on one who confesses the principal fact, but varies as to circumstances. |
| B. | The torture may bring out full proof; when there is no witness, but vehement suspicion. |
| c. | Any two indications of heresy will justify the use of torture. |
| D. | Let the tormentor terrify him by all means to frighten him into confession. |
| E. | If he will not confess, the torture may be continued on a second or third day." |
Although nobles were exempt from torture, the Inquisitors were nevertheless authorised to torture without restriction persons of all classes.
It is very strange when you think about it, just a little over two hundred years ago, people In Europe, were still burning their own kind as heretics. While on the new continent of America, there was in existence Freedom of Religion. The only place on the earth, where people were given the right of freedom of religion by the power of the Government Strange again that Europe, should have taken so long in destroying the Inquisition and the causes it stood for.