The phrase "torture method" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing techniques or practices that inflict severe pain or suffering, often in the context of interrogation or punishment.
Example: "The report detailed various torture methods used during the conflict, raising serious ethical concerns."
Alternatives: "torture technique" or "method of torture."
In one of the most traumatic moments of the commission hearings, in 1997 MP Tony Yengeni confronted his former torturer Jeff Benzien and demanded that Benzien demonstrate the "wet bag" torture method he had used on him.
He would return to the use of waterboarding, a torture method, in violation of international treaty law.
"Think of deep, bone-deep lacerations, of buttocks with no skin left on them, think of being flayed alive," he writes of a torture method called falanga.
Spice, in particular (a very strong cannabinoid) is reputedly used in prisons as an ad hoc torture method; some small but unpayable debt exacted by forcing the debtor to smoke more than the recommended match-head.
Fortunately, they're not actually imbued with Force Choke abilities, but have "snaps on the bodysuits can detach, posing a choking hazard to young children" (a lesser known Sith torture method).
Last week, after Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York mayor, said he was not sure about waterboarding because he thought "the liberal media" might not have described it properly, Senator John McCain of Arizona, who was tortured as a prisoner in North Vietnam, shot back, saying it was a torture method used since the Spanish Inquisition.
Torture methods for cats?
And the Zetas' torture methods, including decapitation, are always available for review on the Internet.
A recent UN report described the torture methods of the Assad regime as "extermination".
The question of effectiveness is a giant distraction from any serious debate about torture methods.
Torture methods included pulling out prisoners' toenails, administering electric shocks and waterboarding.
