现代法学对刑讯逼供的定义是:“在诉讼中司法官员对嫌疑人、被告人、证人实行肉刑或变相肉刑以及精神折磨,以逼取口供的审讯方法。”~①刑讯从什么时候开始,现在并不清楚,沈家本推测可能周代已有。~②在秦代,刑讯最著名的一个例子就是李斯的冤狱,《史记·李斯列传》记载:于是二世乃使(赵)高案丞相狱,治罪,责斯与子由谋反状,皆收捕宗族宾客。赵高治斯,榜掠千余,不胜痛,自诬服。斯所以不死者,自负其辩,有功,实无反心,幸得上书自陈,幸二世之寤而赦之。赵高使其客十余辈诈为御史、谒者、侍中,更往覆讯斯,斯更以其实对, The definition of torture by modern law is as follows: “In judicial proceedings, suspects, defendants, witnesses to the suspects, defendants, witnesses imposing corporal punishment or disgraced torture and mental torture in order to extract oral testimony.” ~ ① torture since when , It is not clear now, Shen presumably may have existed in the Zhou Dynasty. ~ ② In the Qin Dynasty, one of the most famous examples of torture was Li Si’s miscarriage of justice. Records of Shi Ji Li Si Chuan: Thus, Er Shi (ZHAO) is a high case of prime minister, guilty of crimes, Clan clan guest. Zhao Gorgs, the list swept more than a thousand, painful, self-accusatory. Sri Lanka so not dead, arrogant of their arguments, meritorious, no objection, fortunate to be self-explanatory, Fortunately, the second of pardon and forgiveness. Zhao Gao made his guests more than ten generations of fraud for the Censor, Ye, paternity, but also to cover the news of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka even more to the fact that,