Guess you've never heard about the Comanches that would rape a woman, gut her then put burning coals in the gut cavity while they were still alive.
In addition plenty of really barbaric tortures done by the Aztecs documented.
In addition plenty of really barbaric tortures done by the Aztecs documented.
I've also heard that a lot of the medieval torture devices are actually just Victorian inventions made up for gawks which sounds plausible; you don't really need elaborate works of ironmongery to torture people when the time-honored methods of beating the shit out of them with fists or clubs or various forms of water torture seem quite effective.
And the Aztecs were pretty far gone, in my opinion, they sound almost as bad as the old Assyrians.