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The '''rack''' was an instrument of [[torture]] used principally in the Middle Ages. It consisted of a long table, with cranks with chains attached on each end. The prisoner would be stripped naked and placed on the table, and his hands and feet attached to the handcuffs/footcuffs. Then the executioners would twist the cranks, stretching out the prisoner's legs and arms until the [[muscle]] was torn, or occasionally until the limbs were dislocated. Some cases even tore off the limbs.
The '''rack''' was an instrument of [[torture]] used principally in the Middle Ages. It consisted of a long table, with cranks with chains attached on each end. The prisoner would be stripped naked and placed on the table, and his hands and feet attached to the handcuffs/footcuffs. Then the executioners would twist the cranks, stretching out the prisoner's legs and arms until the [[muscle]] was torn, or occasionally until the limbs were dislocated. Some cases even tore off the limbs.
== History ==
The first one that was widely known was the rack known as the “Duke of Exeter’s Daughter”, however the main usage was on a saint named Saint Nicholas Owen (c. 1562 - March 1606) in which he was subjected to the rack for building priest holes for priests to escape persecution from the English government at the time.
[[Category:Instruments and Methods of Torture]]
[[Category:Instruments and Methods of Torture]]