Digest of Biblical Civil Law

Nicodemus argued that judging either an individual or a crowd of being an enemy of the state without having been convicted in a court of law was contrary to the law (John 7:47-53). Torture assumes the guilt of an individual without due process.

- Phillip Kayser, Torture: A Biblical Critique, p. 17, http://biblicalblueprints.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Torture.pdf.