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Torch Me in the Morning

Monday, September 21, 2009 10:16 AM

tags: Discovery Channel, Machines of Malice, Productions, torture, world of wonder

World of Wonder's Machines of Malice: Witches & Heretics premieres tonight at 10 PM Eastern on the Discovery Channel. Find out why community and religious leaders during the Middle Ages reserved the most-painful punishments for individuals they labeled as heretical. (Text & photos by Nick Perlmuter)

WHEEL OF MISFORTUNE: Some of these devices live up to their reputations, while others prove to be propaganda designed to control behavior through fear.

GUT CHECK: See how executioners during the Middle Ages applied simple mechanics to specific body parts with devastating results.

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