Punishment has another name, called? Torture? Here? Is it cool? Not handsome or cool? Is it cool? But cruel? Is it cool? . Since ancient times, all kinds of torture have emerged one after another. What? Torture in Shang Dynasty, Qin and Han Dynasties, Tang Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty and Republic of China? Waiting for punishment, any one of them can scare away a large number of people. But what is the meaning of these tortures? If you want to punish a bad guy, can't you just behead him? In fact, this is just a kind of shock and declaration of the rulers, and it is also to directly destroy the prisoners' hearts and make them feel uncomfortable inside and outside.
The first point: the penalty is too light to achieve the purpose of punishment.
Among all the punishments, there are many minor punishments, such as hitting the board, slapping, kneeling, going to jail and so on. None of this will do harm to life, at most, it will be a bit painful, or it will be a little harder to live in the future. But for many criminals, this punishment is not painful, especially the punishment of kneeling on the board. Ten days and a half later, they can be alive and kicking again. How can they continue to be demons? So we have to come up with some severe and cruel punishments and increase the punishment, so that these prisoners can remember the pain once and for all and never make mistakes again.
The second point: torture is more conducive to extorting confessions by torture and destroying the psychological defense of prisoners.
We can often see many pictures of extorting confessions by torture on TV, all of which are to extort confessions by torture from prisoners and force them to tell the truth of their crimes. Usually, at first, these criminals behave like dead mice and don't feel cold. As a result, within three minutes after the execution, they were terrified and tore their hearts out with pain, and immediately confessed their crimes honestly. In ancient times, the means and efficiency of solving crimes were far less convenient and fast than we are now. It seems that only in this way can the purpose of solving crimes be achieved quickly.
Third, extort confessions by torture to deter all potential criminals.
Why Zhu Yuanzhang was able to govern the Ming Dynasty in a very short time was actually inseparable from his habitual use of punishment. It is precisely because of such severe torture and cruel means that those who want to commit crimes are vaccinated in advance, so that they are psychologically prepared and understand that as long as they dare to step out of the footsteps of crime, only the most waiting for them. Is it cool? what's up Torture? Serve them. Moreover, this deterrent effect does exist, and it is an unchanging conclusion for thousands of years that there is less crime under severe punishment.
The fourth point: the more cruel torture is, the more tricks it has, and the more it can reflect the sense of responsibility of the case handlers.
Many punishments are thought of by people who execute punishments and investigate cases in prisons. Usually there are no prisoners, or prisoners are difficult to judge, so we have to rack our brains to come up with some new tricks to torture people, which can not only achieve the purpose of our own interrogation, but also show our intentions and responsibilities in this position. In order to please the people above, some people will take this road and take inventing torture as their interest and occupation.
It is precisely because of the above four points that in ancient times, there were always a steady stream of people who tried their best to study and invent all kinds of new torture. In their view, as long as there are enough tricks and cruelty, there is no criminal who can't be solved. This is also a manifestation of insufficient progress in ideological civilization. In today's legal society, there is no need to worry about being tortured so cruelly.