Routinized supplementary torture accompanied nearly all serious penalties

Evidence

It was not only in the great solemn executions, but also in this additional form of punishment, that torture revealed the significant part it played in penality: every penalty of a certain seriousness had to involve an element of torture, of supplice. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 82

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Recidivism was explicitly punished under the Ancien Régime — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 492; Torture proved a boomerang weapon that undermined the power using it; The sovereign executed regicides with symbolic maximal torture — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 108 (+1 more)

Related

• The sovereign executed regicides with symbolic maximal torture (similarity 0.85)
• Public torture and execution was among the most popular spectacles of eighteenth-century France. (similarity 0.80)
• Torture and semi-proofs scandalized justice only when the power to punish required certainty (similarity 0.80)
• Judicial torture was a quantified technique, not lawless rage (similarity 0.79)
• Torture persisted because it revealed truth and displayed power (similarity 0.79)
• Execution rituals were explicitly military displays of armed justice. (similarity 0.79)
• Recidivism was explicitly punished under the Ancien Régime (similarity 0.78)
• Execution sites and torments mirrored the crime’s form and setting (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The sovereign executed regicides with symbolic maximal torture #exemplifies (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 108
• Recidivism was explicitly punished under the Ancien Régime #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 492
• Torture proved a boomerang weapon that undermined the power using it #responds-to (0.75)
• Torture and semi-proofs scandalized justice only when the power to punish required certainty #expands (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 158