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  Strappado
The strappado, also known as the pendulum, was one of the easiest and, therefore, one of the most common torture techniques.
All one needed to set up a strappado was a sturdy rafter and a rope.
In some areas, it was customary to apply thumbscrews to the victim while she/he was on the strappado (Maple 92).
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  strappado - Search Results - MSN Encarta
The strappado is a form of torture in which a victim is suspended in the air by means of a...
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  BDSM bondage strappado techniques.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The term Strappado; used to describe this position refers to a method of torture that is still practised in some countries today, and has its roots in a form of medieval torture by the same name.
While the strappado bondage position is considered to be a form of BDSM play, it shares its basic principles of restraint with the method of torture and therefore can very easily become just that if not practised safely.
While the general principle of a bondage strappado remains the same with the arms bound upwards behind the subject, there are various different methods and styles used to achieve this.
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 MySpace.com - Strappado - Boston - Death Metal - www.myspace.com/strappado
Strappado was formed in 2004 by Evan Duplessis (Lead vocals/Guitar) and Mark Richards ("Sewer" gutturals/Guitar), with the intent to mix old school and new school death metal with a touch of their own to create simply a brutal death metal band.
At the moment Strappado is on the backburner, as we are all focusing on our full time bands.
Strappado will continue and new material will be recorded when we have the means to do so.
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 Strappado
Independent of eachother Matthew and Luke in Acts improved on the gospel of Mark by adding a well deserved death for Judas, and Mark himself improved on the original story by giving a name to the betrayer: Judas.
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 Prisoner 26 Football Player In Bondage Part 6 - Strappado
His knees and ankles were loosly chained together and a further length of chain was attached around his neck and then down the front of his body where it was connected to his ankle chains.
Towards the end of this period of restraint the neck chain was removed from his ankles and pulled between his legs and attached to his cuffed wrists.
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 Tortures of the Inquisition
Squassation - In the question extraordinaire, the final torture designed to make prisoners inform on their accomplices, the accused is hoisted as in strappado, his hands bound behind his back to a cord secured to a pulley in the ceiling of the torture chamber.
Strappado is customarily one of the `lighter' measures used, but can easily develop into squassation, a more severe variant.
The prisoners are fed only on salted food, and how all their drink is mixed with herring pickle, and no drop of pure, unadulterated wine, beer, or water is allowed them, but raging thirst is purposely kept up in them...but this cruel, raging, devouring thirst the inquisitors do not consider torture.
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 Strappado   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Strappado ist sowohl eine Foltermethode als auch eine sexuelle Praktik.
Als Strappado oder Pendel wird eine leicht anzuwendende und daher vor allem im Mittelalter weit verbreitete Foltermethode bezeichnet.
In einer anderen, auch als Strappado bezeichneten, Variante wurden dem Opfer die Handgelenke vor dem Körper gefesselt, das Opfer wiederum an den Handgelenken nach oben gezogen, zusätzlich aber schwere Gewichte an den Fußgelenken befestigt.
www.biologie.de /biowiki/Strappado   (216 words)

  
 Tortures
The strappado, also known as the pendulum, was one of the easiest and, therefore, one of the most common torture techniques.
In some areas, it was customary to apply thumbscrews to the victim while she/he was on the strappado.
Squassation was a form of torture used in conjunction with the strappado.
www.the-night.net /torture/torture.htm   (397 words)

  
 The Strappado Rendition
He was suspended from a barred window by his wrists, which were bound behind his back, in a hideous torture method known as the strappado.
Strappado is a form of torture in which a victim is suspended in the air by means of a rope attached to his hands which are tied behind his back.
In strappado, the victim has his arms tied behind his back with a large rope tied to his wrists and passed over a beam or a hook on the roof.
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 Understanding Torture by Jay Pickard
Another favorite that may or may not be used by the CIA is a variant of the strappado, where the prisoner's hands are chained to the ceiling and his feet are shackled, sometimes with weights attached and he's then lifted into the air.
A variant of strappado (the medieval inquisition name), is also known as reverse hanging or Palestinian hanging (allegedly because of its use in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict) and has been reported used in the Middle East as well as by institutions that practice torture.
In the first one, the victim has his arms tied behind his back; a large rope is then tied to his wrists and passed over a beam or a hook on the roof.
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 Ann Kaserin in The Summerlands
The strappado was a simple but hideously effective torture.
She was hoisted in the strappado and her legs were crushed in iron boots.
But as they let her down from the strappado for the final time, the Witch made one last request, a plea that struck her judges as odd enough to note in their records.
www.summerlands.com /crossroads/remembrance/victims/akaserin.htm   (1095 words)

  
 Strappado — FactMonster.com
A military punishment formerly practised; it consisted of pulling an offender to a beam and then letting him down suddenly; by this means a limb was not unfrequently dislocated.
“Were I at the strappado or the rack, I'd give no man a reason on compulsion.” —
Strappado - Strappado A military punishment formerly practised; it consisted of pulling an offender to a beam...
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 Strappado Wrack - provocative political articles by SARTRE
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 ukhh.com | reviews | ep | Blaktrix - Strappado Styles
Strappado Styles EP The first solo release from Cardiff based emcee Blaktrix is sure to make an impact on anyone who hears it.
Even learning what the title means is an education to those not familiar with medieval torture techniques, but the real impact comes from track 2!
If Blaktrik continues along this path and improves on the way, then we’ll be expecting great releases to come for sure!
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 Guantanamo Briton 'in handcuff torture' | UK News | The Observer
David Rose on the allegation that a British detainee was suspended by his wrists as punishment for reciting the Koran while in US military custody
A British detainee at Guantanamo Bay has told his lawyer he was tortured using the 'strappado', a technique common in Latin American dictatorships in which a prisoner is left suspended from a bar with handcuffs until they cut deeply into his wrists.
The reason, the prisoner says, was that he was caught reciting the Koran at a time when talking was banned.
observer.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,6903,1382033,00.html   (1093 words)

  
 Police Attack Pro-Lifers
The same was done to her 70-year-old husband when he objected; and then to a photographer whose film the police deliberately exposed after he was arrested for taking pictures.
This is when police first employed strappado - that was to become the standard arrest technique used throughout the day.
Strappado is an ancient form of torture where the victim's hands are cuffed (in this case, plastic cuffs) behind the back.
forerunner.com /forerunner/X0462_Police_Attack_Pro-Li.html   (1071 words)

  
 BNR Metal Pages -- Slaughter   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Guitarist Dave Hewson recruited a new lineup and continued playing as Strappado (the name change both to indicate a new direction and to avoid conflicts with the aforementioned glam band), but they never progressed beyond the demo stage.
Later, Hewson and Bobby Sadzak (one of the new Strappado members) formed Inner Thought, which survived for a few years before folding.
From a 2002 perspective, Strappado comes across as dated and simplistic, but damn cool as well, and there is no denying the influence they had on the death metal scene, which at at time was still in its infancy.
www.bnrmetal.com /groups/slau.htm   (226 words)

  
 SLAUGHTER
"Strappado" in 1986 and finally after many delays released it on Diabolic Force / Fringe Records in early 1987 Later "Strappado" was re-mixed and released in 1992 on CD with unreleased tracks not on the original album.
The name was changed to STRAPPADO (title of the first LP) and the new four piece released two new albums: "Not Dead Yet" and "Fatal Judgement".
During '91 you released the first STRAPPADO demo, "Not Dead Yet", an eight song effort, but I can't say that I was as much into it as into the old SLAUGHTER material, something seemed to lack...
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 UNSTOPPABLE FORCE-Interview with Slaughter (not those pop fags-Thrash from Canada)
SLAUGHTER were a Canadian band that mixed hardcore punk,speed,and thrash metal into a whirlwind of fury and anger that fueled the Canadian thrash scene in the mid 80's.
T.S.-After the bullshit with the STRAPPADO album,we wrote more songs that took stuff like "Nocturnal Hell" and "Tortured Souls" and added more intense lyrics and more riffs and took the new songs to the next level.
The STRAPPADO live shows still contained some old,classics songs,but without the tuned-down,Sabbath riffing that we had been known for.
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 Torture Methods   (Site not responding. Last check: )
While some methods of torture and punishment attempted to extract confessions from accused persons though humiliation and emotional anguish, a vast majority of the techniques used centered on the infliction of pain.
The most popular techniques were strappado, thumbscrews, bootikens, interrogation chairs, and tormentum insomniae.
Bootikens, interrogation chairs, thumbscrews, and strappado were each methods of torture that required little time to perform and little effort from the people performing them.
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 Strappado's progress on Learn to play the drums on 43 Things
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Strappado in Chicago is doing 24 things including…
Strappado has gotten 2 cheers on this goal.
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 BLABBERMOUTH.NET - Canadian Thrashers SLAUGHTER Launch Official Web Site
Formed in 1984, the band went the usual demo tape route (at a time where underground tape trading was rampant, this only served to heighten band awareness), eventually recording their seminal 'Strappado' album in 1986.
Recording commenced on a followup album to be entitled 'Paranormal', but the band broke up in 1990, preventing its release [the album was eventually issued in 2001 via Nuclear Blast].
Guitarist Dave Hewson recruited a new lineup and continued playing as STRAPPADO (the name change both to indicate a new direction and to avoid conflicts with [the cock-rock band fronted by Mark Slaughter]), but they never progressed beyond the demo stage.
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Newest series Radical Reactionary and 'Inherent Autonomy', provocative articles appear on the 'Strappado Wrack', traditional essays on the 'View from the Mount', a running debate on the 'Dueling Twins', timeless endeavors on 'Varying Verity', the NWO watch on Global Gulag, thoughtful tracts on Solitary Purdah.
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 Strappado — Infoplease.com
A military punishment formerly practised; it consisted of pulling an offender to a beam and then letting him down suddenly; by this means a limb was not unfrequently dislocated.
Strappado - Strappado A military punishment formerly practised; it consisted of pulling an offender to a beam...
William Shakespeare: Henry IV (Pt 1), Act II, Scene IV - Ned, prithee, come out of that fat room, and lend me thy hand to laugh a little.
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 Landon Proctor: Strappado or "Palestinian hanging"
ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of French strapade, from Old French, from Old Italian strappata, from strappare, to stretch tight, of Germanic origin.
The U.S. says it's OK to use strappado again!
As the guards released the shackles and lowered al-Jamadi, blood gushed from his mouth "as if a faucet had been turned on," according to the interview summary.
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SLAUGHTER capitalised on this with the debut album 'Strappado', recorded for the Fringe subsidiary Diabolic Force, and subsequent tour supports with the likes of CELTIC FROST, KREATOR, G.B.H., VOIVOD and SACRIFICE among others.
The German Nuclear Blast label would re-issue 'Strappado' complete with an extra CD compiled of live recordings from SLAUGHTER's inaugural March 1985 gig and rehearsal tapes.
The band's legacy was given further prominence during 2004 when Hells Headbangers Records released 'Fuck Of Death', a compilation of the 1986 rehearsal recordings conducted with late DEATH frontman Chuck Schuldiner.
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