The Wheel
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the wheel
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On the murder of Herodes
The torture instrument ('the wheel') on which the slave was stretched during his examination, and under whose pressure he first falsely incriminated the defendant.
Also let me point out to you that at the start, before being placed on the wheel, in fact, until extreme pressure was brought to bear, the man adhered to the truth and declared me innocent.
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
An instrument/method of execution by torture, cited as an example of a once-terrifying punishment that loses its power to terrify once habitual, and referenced again in the criminal's calculation.
and the force of passions still continuing, in the space of an hundred years, the wheel terrifies no more than formerly the prison.
Let us, for example, suppose two nations, in one of which the greatest punishment is perpetual slavery, and in the other the wheel.
Let us, for a moment, attend to the reasoning of a robber or assassin, who is deterred from violating the laws by the gibbet or the wheel.