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Torturing someone to scare others into compliance.
To make it realistic: enemy soldiers captured as prisoners of war. In order to keep them from staging a breakout and slaughtering the civilians in the large town you're defending, you torture the ringleader of the attempt - publically and painfully sending a message.
Historically: Keelhauling for mutineers on sea vessels.
Unconvincing. You haven't demonstrated that torture will result in the best outcome, even in a hypothetical situation where the participants are already Doing It Badly Wrong.
He did demonstrate that bgaesop's reported fact applies in a limited domain, and that torture supposedly has other uses.