King James I Considered Waterboarding Worst Of All Torture

harpers.org — In ascending order of severity they were: thumbscrews, the rack and waterboarding. Waterboarding was considered the most severe of tortures. That’s right. Waterboarding was considered the most severe of the official forms of torture. Worse than the rack and thumbscrews. Dec 15, 2007 View in Crawl 4