Third degree (interrogation)
The third degree is a euphemism for torture ("inflicting of pain, physical or mental, to extract confessions or statements").[1]
History
References
- Jerome Herbert Skolnick (1994). Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force. Simon & Schuster. p. 43. ISBN 0-02-929153-4.
... which it defined as 'the inflicting of pain, physical or mental, to extract confessions or statements' was widespread throughout the United States ... Another, proposed in 1910 by Richard Sylvester, President of the ...
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