This is an era not that far from the middle ages. Out of 35 thousand a death sentences, v a c catrell says, only seven thousand executions happened. The crimes they were being killed for were things that many in the crowd didn't consider all that bad. And while this might seem like a more merciful sentence than some of the things we've been talking about going on in germany and the netherlands and france, getrel reminds us that it's not as sweet and nice as you may think.