西夏刑具主要有杖、枷、铁铐、铁索、铁锁等。西夏刑具广泛吸收汉制,其样式与唐宋刑具大体相仿,规格比唐宋刑具略小。西夏继承了唐宋的颂系制度,对贵族官僚有爵位者、老幼残疾孕妇、犯笞杖轻罪者入狱免施刑具。为了防止监狱官吏滥施刑具,对刑具的施用有严格规定。 Xixia torture instruments are mainly rod, flail, iron handcuffs, iron cable, iron locks and so on. Xixia torture widely absorb Han system, its style and torture of the Tang and Song Dynasties generally similar to the specifications of torture slightly smaller than the Tang and Song Dynasties. Xixia inherited the system of Song and Song clan system, the aristocrat bureaucratic knight, pregnant and old crippled pregnant women, prisoners of war criminals imprisonment exempt from torture. In order to prevent prison officials misuse instruments of torture, the application of torture have strict rules.