There’s a brutal scene at the end of Braveheart where a jacked-up Mel Gibson meets his painful end by getting ripped to literal pieces on the most merciless of medieval torture contraptions, the rack.

DEDHAM, Mass. — A dominatrix was acquitted of manslaughter Monday in the death of a man who prosecutors say suffered a heart attack while strapped to a replica of a medieval rack. Barbara Asher, 56, ...

The Rack is one of the most infamous torture devices in history – and for good reason. In this video, we uncover how it worked, who it was used on, and why it became the terrifying symbol of medieval ...

SLIVERS of skin have been stretched to twice their size in a week using a robotic bioreactor that is akin to a medieval rack. The technique could increase the size, viability and availability of skin ...