Beside actual executions, there were torture as a part of crime investigation (in particular to extract confession as the religion insisted that criminal must c

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.