The crime of extorting confessions by torture (ECT) refers to the act committed by judicial officers who extort confession from criminal suspects or defendants by corporal punishment.

In theses systems,the interrogation system,the evidence system and the trial system of death penalty were not only the symbol of the legal system improvement of Ming and Qing dynasty,but also the im.

However,extort a confession by torture,the old rude way of litigation is still existing,which will have a great damage to the socialist legal construction.

It can t be avoided that the lawmen extort a confession by torture during the century, which has become a serious and intractable problem; therefore it is undoubtedly a great shock for constructing society of monocracy and society of harmony.

In modern judicial practice,extorting a confession by torture is paid attention,though measures are taken to prevent it,it happened frequently.

The investigation organization is accused as the main maker of extorting a confession by torture.

Due to Chinese current legal system and the police’s adminis-trative pattern,extorting a confession by torture is hardly to be avoided in police s.

As one kind of concrete behavior or as one kind of criminal activity legal system,extortion of confession by torture widely exists in China ancient times.

In the trial practice,the accused person proposed to have the extortion of confession by torture behavior in front of the courtyard in the detection places on trial.

On Standardization of Restraining Inquisition by Torture in Criminal Investigation ——From the View of Human-right Protection;

Reasons and Containment Way to Inquisition by Torture;