国际刑法上的“酷刑”概念 ,不同于中国传统意义的“酷刑”。后者偏重于仅就刑罚的实体内容下定义 :即只要听起来相当残忍的肉体刑即为“酷刑” ,不论其刑罚的权力主体及程序如何。例如新加坡现代刑法中的“鞭刑”理所当然的是“酷刑” ;中国古代封建王朝律定的“凌迟处死刑” The concept of “torture” in international criminal law differs from the “traditional torture” of China. The latter focuses on the definition of the substance of the sentence only: that is, as long as it sounds cruel, physical torture is “torture” irrespective of the subject and procedure of the power of punishment. For example, “whipping punishment” in Singapore’s modern criminal law is taken for granted as “torture”; in the ancient Chinese feudal dynasty, the “delay in execution of death penalty”