Strappado

[10] It was employed by the medieval Inquisition and many governments,[11] such as the civil law court (1543–1798) of the Order of St. John at the Castellania in Valletta, Malta.

The technique typically causes brachial plexus injury, leading to paralysis or loss of sensation in the arms.

It is believed that this form of strappado was employed on Niccolò Machiavelli during his 1513 imprisonment after allegedly conspiring against the Medici family in Florence, who were also his primary patrons.

According to William Godwin, Girolamo Savonarola was tortured by strappado multiple times before being put to death in a trial by ordeal (fire).

The "ropes" was one of several torture methods employed at the Hỏa Lò Prison, popularly known among Americans as the Hanoi Hilton during the 1964–1973 era of the Vietnam War.

[18] The site was used by the North Vietnamese Army to house, torture, and interrogate captured servicemen, mostly American airmen shot down during bombing raids.

[20] According to a 1997 Human Rights Watch report, this technique was "widely employed" by the security forces of Turkey, where it is "usually used together with high-pressure water, electric shock, beating, or sexual molestation such as squeezing the testicles or breast or placing a nightstick against or in the vagina or anus.

[23]In November 2003, suspected terrorist Manadel al-Jamadi was tortured to death at Abu Ghraib prison during a Central Intelligence Agency interrogation by members of the U.S. military.

[24] In 2017, video footage was released of Iraqi Army members inflicting strappado torture following successes in the Battle of Mosul.