The arms are pulled up behind the subject and they are placed into the strappado position.

To increase the suffering caused by the strappado, weights were attached to the feet of the victim.

The so called devil's mark was found on her body, and she was tortured with strappado.

In particular, there is a risk of the sort of injuries discussed in the strappado article.

The most common instrument of torture was the strappado, which was a simple rope and pulley system.

The torture included physical violence and strappado hanging, whereby the victim is hung from the wrists with the hands tied behind the back.

Jeresen has dropped the strappado rope.

The strappado perhaps.

Zounds, an I were at the strappado or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion.

This song is off their album Strappado....

She is stripped naked and tortured by strappado ("put to The Question"), confesses, and is imprisoned.

He was tortured with thumb screws and leg vices and the strappado, and in the end, of course, he confessed.

Other names for strappado include "reverse hanging" and "Palestinian hanging" (alleged use by Israeli forces against Palestinians).

He claims to have been beaten and sexually humiliated during interrogations, and to have been hung in the strappado position.

Lastly comes the torture of the rope and pulley, the most in vogue of all, and known in other Latin countries as the strappado.

Looking at it was a little like looking at an instrument of torture - boot, rack, strappado - which is standing inactive, but only for the moment.

Tomás, his sons and servants torture with a makeshift strappado (ropes strung on the chandelier), causing Lorenzo to break down and sign.

The more common method of strappado often depicted in BDSM publications has the subject's legs bound together at the ankles and just above the knees.

The application of the garrucha, also known as the strappado, consisted of suspending the victim from the ceiling by the wrists, which are tied behind the back.

The accused were hoisted up on the strappado by a rope so that the weight of their bodies, sometimes augmented by dead weights, dislocated their joints.

Today I find myself at leisure, and this little outing is truly pleasant, but tomorrow I must conduct two hangings, a strappado and a flogging."

Despite the crossbow bolt in his thigh, Eudo had survived the rack, the boot and the strappado: every limb was broken but he clung tenaciously to life.

It is believed that Niccolò Machiavelli, during his 1513 imprisonment after allegedly conspiring against the Medici family in Florence, was subjected to this form of strappado.

While the general principle of a bondage strappado remains the same - with the arms bound upwards behind the subject - there are various methods and styles used to achieve this.

From 2003 to 2008 Suleiman Abdallah was allegedly tortured in three different U.S. detention or Black Site facilities, suffering sexual abuse, beatings and torture, including strappado.