The use of torture in the search for criminals and the execution of punishments (historical essay)

Abstract

The article deals with torture as a means and a way to search for criminals and carry out punishments, which were legitimate forms of criminal justice. The features of the legal regulation of torture in the monuments of Russian law of the 15th - 18th centuries are highlighted. The use of such common types of torture in pre-revolutionary Russia as the rack, whip and whip is analyzed.