In one of the realms that I'm a member of there appears to be some serious confusion. But before I clarify things, I thought it best to confirm things here.
There's a thinking that "It's a very well known concept you have to torture Infiltrators, if you're serious about banning them or executing them."
Apparently this comes from thinking that torturing an infiltrator damages their successful chance to escape prison. I guess the rational is "torturing damages their stats, which must include their escape chance!".
Some background: The goal of our realm regarding infiltrators is "to stop the infiltrator attacks". Execution is just fine (and our enemies have executed our own infiltrators), and in fact is the preferred method (over deportation) of making sure that infiltrators don't continue their attacks.
Question 1: Is there any truth that torturing an infiltrator lowers their current and subsequent chances to escape prison? (is it a permanent effect?)
Question 2: As a judge, if you have the chance to torture an infiltrator, why wouldn't you just ban them (and execute them on the second offense)?
Question 3: Is there any reason to torture on the first offense, ban on the second, and execute on the third; over just banning on the first and executing on the second?