It got worse later... And your evidence of this is a picture of a python parody. Nice.
I'd recommend looking into the current research about the Spanish Inquisition. The BBC did a nice documentary a few years back that trashes the 'black legend' of the Inquisition as little more than Protestant propaganda. The Spanish Inquisition was one of the fairest and most benevolent courts of its day, relative to the typical practices in other courts of Europe at the same time.
Actually torturer was fairly rare, even in the Spanish Inquisition. It usually amounted to just the rack. Painful though that was it didn't draw blood, inquisitors were prohibited from disfiguring the human body. Interestingly the historian Henry Kamen in his book on the Spanish Inquisition noted that the reason for the long duration of a torture session in Inquisitorial cases, as opposed to secular courts (who were much less strict in the implementation of torture) was probably because the victim could withstand it longer (according to the Inquisitions own laws they could only turn the rack so far). In any case the percentage of tortured prisoners was light, and of those tortured, more then once, about 2%. In research of the Inquisitions archives modern historians have never found a case were the prisoner was tortured more then three times.
A lot of the myths about the Spanish Inquisition were made up in Holland during that countries rebellion from Hapsburg Spain.
