Describe why the party chooses to torture political prisoners rather than just kill them

They wouldn't really gain anything from killing, as a matter of fact it would be counter productive since people would gather against them because of it. They want total control over people and they want to break people physically and spiritually. Through torture they would eventually get the person to break and this would be good because they wouldn't be against the state anymore.

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The north were against slavery.

A. the economies of the confederate states relied on slave labor 

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