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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (138946)	4/17/2001 2:21:27 PM
From: dale_laroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"More like 3,000." "The best estimate is that around 3000 death sentences were carried out in Spain by Inquisitorial verdict between 1550 and 1800" But I was talking about throughout Europe, not just Spain. In fact, the Spaniards came to the conclusion that witchcraft, if it existed at all, was such a minor factor that it wasn't even worth investigating. Additionally, the estimates for the Spanish Inquisition run as low as 150 Jews being executed for heresy. But, as per your own contribution: "the Spanish Inquisition, ... acted with considerable restraint in inflicting the death penalty, far more restraint than was demonstrated in secular tribunals elsewhere in Europe that dealt with the same kinds of offenses." I don't understand this "secular" qualifier however. According to The History Channel, the Jews were executed by Inquisitors of the Catholic Church throughout Europe to a far greater degree than in Spain, with the other nations in Europe taking advantage of the newly invented printing press to give the Spanish Inquisition an undeservedly bad name.