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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 6: Prof. Paola Tartakoff - The Papal Inquisition in Spain

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The History of the Death Penalty

Torture came into play when the inquisitors felt that someone needed quote unquote a little help confessing. And confession was considered the queen of proofs, even if it was produced under torture. You had to have two concordant eyewitnesses or a confession in order to convict someone. If you were going to be put to death as a repeat offender or someone who was not penitent,. This would then follow a very public ceremony because this all had a lot of pedagogical import.

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