Interesting, thank you for that clarification. It looks like execution rates were as high as 30 per 100,000 in 1600, dropping to under 5 per 100,000 by 1700: ht

Interesting, thank you for that clarification. It looks like execution rates were as high as 30 per 100,000 in 1600, dropping to under 5 per 100,000 by 1700: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5955207/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5955207/ The US in 1700 was about 1 per 100,000: https://www.cato.org/blog/despite-federal-return-capital-punishment-dying-out https://www.cato.org/blog/despite-federal-return-capital-pun... The number of executions in the US annually today is only 0.008 per 100,000.