Yes, believe it or not America still does this. They still actually prosecute people for the crime of torture, even people who used to be police. Mindblowing, isn't it?
FOX 32 News Chicago Video
Steve Mandell was convicted in February for his role in the torture and murder plot. He and his accomplice, Gary Engel — who committed suicide in prison in 2012 — planned to abduct a wealthy businessman, Steve Campbell, and take him to a torture chamber they had built.
There, they would torture Campbell — a real estate magnate — until he signed over land deeds to them, and then they would kill him. On video secretly taken by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Engel and Mandell can be heard discussing how they will torture Campbell before killing him.
“You going to put a little blade there?” Mandell asked, to which Engel replied that he would flay open Campbell’s penis. It would be just like “slicing a banana split. You know what a banana split looks like?”
The judge stated this this man was "Evil", and that the public needed to be protected from him. It's just too bad she wasn't saying that about Richard Bruce Cheney.