How many people died from torturing?

Answer 1

There is no way to know. From the dawn of civilization - over 6,500 years ago - until the advent of the 20th century (and in the USA, to this day) people could be convicted on the basis of their confession of guilt alone. All through history, the course of justice was helped along (so to speak) by using torture on suspects to provide the Courts with the necessary admission of guilt. In a number of cases where this torture led to death it was recorded, but as often (if not more often) it was not.

Slaves were tortured in ancient times in any court case against their masters, since they were thought to give a false testimony otherwise. The torture in most cases was not even recorded, let alone the number of cases that someone died from it. The same goes for the hundreds of millions of Russian slaves kept from Medieval times until 1865 when they were freed. Their masters could torture them at will and no record of it was ever kept. And finally, many forms of execution or punishment would - often even then as now - be considered a form of torture, from keelhauling to drawing and quartering to bungled beheadings - or bungled 'death by injection' cases in US prisons today.

So all through history it must have been millions, but an exact number cannot even be estimated.