... condition in one form or another. The now violent acts of torture evolved from early forms of legal conduct. In the beginning, natural and innate laws governed society and its well-being by the desire to survive and live harmoniously together. When either of these requirements fell victim to one's avariciousness for rebellion or lust for self-focused ambitions, the acts were punishable often by death or what we would now signify as acts of torture.3 "The law of primitive humans used exile for punishing major offences..."4 During these seemingly primitive times, punishment existed through the ejection of delinquents from society and the civilised world. This process of punishment i.e. exclusion and expulsion from civilisation, is a part of what is often referred to or classified as torture.5 The necessity for a common code of laws became ever-present as the population of the anthropocentric society grew. It was later decided that any actual ...

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