What constitutes torture and what are the elements of it?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Butterfield, E061972 (Cal. App. 2016):
Torture has two elements: (1) a person inflicts great bodily injury upon another person, and (2) the person inflicting the injury does so with the intent to cause cruel and extreme pain and suffering for the purpose of revenge, extortion, persuasion, or for any sadistic purpose. (People v. Baker (2002) 98 Cal.App.4th 1217, 1223.) Although torture
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