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Curious, how many executions per year could there possibly be in Bamberg, Bavaria?

• scandox 7y ago
  The only figures I could see casually were that there were approximately 2,000 per year in England during the reign of Henry VIII...so I guess it's not insane to imagine a mid-size town in Germany having 10 or 15 a year? Which would surely be enough to justify professional help?
  • trhway 7y ago
    Beside actual executions, there were torture as a part of crime investigation (in particular to extract confession as the religion insisted that criminal must confess to make sure that no innocent gets punished), plus non-capital punishments: "During this time, he executed 394 individuals by various methods, and also flogged, disfigured, or tortured many hundreds more." So, it was pretty busy.
• tsss 7y ago
  Looking at Bavaria and their religious fundamentalism and stupid law-and-order politics today... Probably a lot.
• technothrasher 7y ago
  Well, in his diary he says he executed more than 350 people in his 45 year career. So... about eight on average?