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Torture, forcing a person to make a particular statement by inflicting 
physical pain, played a central role in criminal trials from the end 
of the 15%%sup th/%  century. The practice of torture was regulated to 
a great extent in the criminal codes Carolina (1532), and even later 
in the Constitutio Criminalis Theresiana (1776), although it was 
abolished shortly afterwards. Torture was inflicted by means of 
instruments of torture. A torture chamber now set up as a museum 
exists in Poeggstall (Lower Austria), an exhibition of torture 
practices can be viewed in Sommeregg fortress (Seeboden-Treffling, 
Carinthia).


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