This article is dedicated to the survey and analysis of the legislative proposals around the theme of torture over the last decades in Brazil. In order to understand how Brazilian representatives approached this problem in their parliamentary activity, we dedicate ourselves to researching what legislative proposals were presented and, in specific cases, what were the contents discussed in the deliberation process about them. We observed that, despite the reduced number of articles that effectively became a legal norm, there was a high production of initiatives on the subject, which justifies an effort to understand who the authors are, what specific points they address and how they help us to trace an overview of how the problem is perceived and debated in the field of institutional representation.