Acts Of Torture
SAN FRANCISCO - Three defendants accused of savagely beating and starving a teenager who was held in chains in a Northern California home for more than a year pleaded guilty Friday in a deal intended to send them each to prison for 30 or more years.
SANTA ANA, Calif. - A man convicted of torturing and killing his 21-year-old daughter and keeping her nude body in a small freezer in his recreational vehicle for two years was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole.
SANTA ANA, Calif. - Opening statements are scheduled Wednesday for a parolee charged with tying up and stabbing to death a former prison acquaintance and his family, possibly over an $80,000 debt.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Five Missouri men are accused of taking part in the sexual torture of a young woman allegedly kept as a sex slave by one of the men and forced to work as a stripper, prosecutors announced Thursday.
ANKARA, Turkey - A wooden pole used to suspend suspects by their arms.
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- California man pleads insanity in torture slaying
- Torture activists arrested at US Capitol acquitted
- High court rejects appeal in rendition case
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- Euro official urges strong rendition flight probes
- Argentina opens dirty war torture garage trial
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