Torture victims face a range of devastating long-term consequences. The physical and psychological pain inflicted on them can lead to chronic pain and disabilities, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression.

Torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or ...

Types of psychological torture Other techniques include humiliation, forced nudity and head shaving, exhausting by sleep deprivation, hooding and other forms of sensory deprivation. A strictly fear-inducing method is the mock execution. Various threats operate on the same fear-inducing principle.

Torture is always a felony crime and potentially carries a life prison sentence. While the crime of torture is not frequently seen, there have been cases filed. An example of torture could include a situation of an armed robbery at liquor store.