“Torturers don’t spend a lot of time thinking through the various consequences of their actions,” said Mr. Roehm, especially in the aftermath of an attack like the one in Moscow. “I think a torturer’s mind-set is often a mix of a good degree of revenge and an entirely misguided, ignorant assumption that you could get somebody to ‘confess’ under torture, and that confession can be used to convict them.”

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Display of Battered Men Was Russia’s Warning to the Public, Analysts Say

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