Edgar Allen Poe interrogate, please assistance!?

i want to read this story but i dont know what its called.its about a person who is contained by a prison due to false charges, he is very hungry and sleepy and every time he wakes he is given bread and a pitcher of water. in the future the water is drugged and he falls into a deep sleep then he is tied down and some sort of bladed pendulum entry kills him do you know the name to this story
Answers:
The Pit and the Pendulum.


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