Torture, punishment, or fun practices do not do justice to the description of medieval torture devices. Medieval practitioners would bring together the accumulated knowledge of the Greeks, Romans, and Mesopotamians to create a new art, the art of fear. Regardless of how one views this practice, it is abundantly clear that medieval torture was intended to be cruel. To receive The Rack as punishment, a criminal would have to have stolen, been suspected of a crime, or murdered another person. . The rack was commonly used to extract information. It was also used to extract confessions or simply to interrogate the criminal. Of course, there were many exemptions to this punishment. For example, the magnitude of the crime committed by the victim, the reason they committed the crime in the first place, and even where the victim lived justified the exemptions. All of these elements contributed to determining the type of punishment inflicted on the victim. Thus, the medium was used to control the levels of pain felt by the criminal, which also inflicted on the crimes committed. The stand was described as having a wooden frame usually above the ground. Plus, with two ropes attached to the bottom and two more attached to a handle on the top. Some ordinary people think the rack was a little too cruel, just to extract a tiny bit of information. Yet others felt that determination was not enough to obtain the information necessary for the crime or situation. Or it could have had something to do with personal hatred towards the victim and feeling like it wasn't justified enough. An example of the type of crime a victim should have committed would be theft. Again, it depended on what was stolen, as there were different types of punishments, racketeering being just one. If a victim stole, they could be punished by cutting off their right hand. The victim could also have been beaten and burned alive; while being publicly humiliated. Another widely used practice was “the torture chair” or also known as the Judas chair. This torture or punishment was also intended to extract confessions. Someone with five hundred to a thousand split points in the skin, while the skin break is not greatly penetrated. This means not touching any vital organs, but also closing the wounds to delay blood loss, causing the victim to slowly bleed out and eventually die within about a week...