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Anyone who had been stretched on this legal rack for so long would do anything to prevent the next guy from being similarly tortured.
For all his accomplishments, Herod was nevertheless hated by his subjects; he taxed, he tortured, and he ordered the massacre of male Jewish infants in an attempt to do away with the heralded Messiah.
The Iroquois killed thousands of Huron in all-out war, and two Jesuits, Jean de Brébeuf and Gabriel Lalemant, were tortured to death.
Despite the usual carps about his "tortured" prose (Dana Kennedy, Entertainment Weekly ) and cardboard cutout characters, most critics admit the novel is "a ripping read" ( Publishers Weekly ). (Read an excerpt of Rainbow Six .)
On the opposite side of the road a lane leads to the site of the prison where thousands of people were tortured and executed between 1933 and 1945, including many of the officers involved in the Stauffenberg plot.