在中国几千年的传统司法审判中,刑讯作为取得口供的一种合法的讯问方式一直存在。近代以来,野蛮落后的刑讯制度越来越不适应中国法制近代化的要求,所以废除刑讯制度就成了法制改革的一项重要内容。从清末新政到民国初年,伍廷芳等人为废除刑讯制度做出了巨大的贡 Tens of thousands of years in China as a traditional judicial trial, as a confession to obtain a valid mode of interrogation has existed. Since modern times, the system of torture has become increasingly unsuited to the requirements of the modernization of China’s legal system. Therefore, the abolition of the system of torture has become an important part of the legal system reform. From the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republican period, Wu Tingfang and others made great tributes for abolishing the system of torture