Dodental door de Spaanse inquisitie

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Op maandag 6 augustus 2007 12:04 schreef vosss het volgende:
3000 maar? What's all the fuzz about then!?

Ik heb altijd gedacht dat het een veelvoud was

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Op maandag 6 augustus 2007 12:10 schreef DJKoster het volgende:
Als het volgens dit filmpje is gegaan ligt het dodental wel laag

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Op maandag 6 augustus 2007 12:16 schreef Lord_Vetinari het volgende:
Het is een beetje een vuiligheidje. De Inquisitie zelf bracht namelijk geen mensen om. Dat deed de wereldlijke macht. De Inquisitie zorgde voor de bekentenis van ketterij en vervolgens werd het slachtoffer overgedragen aan de wereldlijke autoriteiten, inclusief bekentenis. Die 3000 zullen degenen zijn die tijdens de verhoren (lees: martelingen) het loodje legden.

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The proportionately small number of executions is an effective argument against the legend of a bloodthirsty tribunal. Nothing, certainly, can efface the horror of the first twenty holocaust years. Nor can occasional outbursts of savagery, such as overtook the Chuetas in the late seventeenth century, be minimized. But it is clear that for most of its existence the Inquisition was far from being a juggernaut of death either in intention or in capability. The figures given above for punishments in Valencia and Galicia suggest an execution rate of well under 2 per cent of the accused. It has been estimated that in the nineteen tribunals analysed above, the execution rate over the period 1540-1700 was 1.83 per cent for relaxations in person and 1.65 per cent for relaxations in effigy. If this is anywhere near the truth, it would seem that during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries less than three people a year were executed by the Inquisition in the whole of the Spanish monarchy from Sicily to Peru — possibly a lower rate than in any provincial court of justice. A comparison, indeed, of secular courts and the Inquisition can only be in favor of the latter as far as rigour is concerned. In 1573, for instance, the corregidor of Plascencia handed over to the Holy Office in Llerena a Morisco condemned by his jurisdiction to be hanged and quartered for allegedly smashing an image of the Virgin, but the Inquisition found the case unproven and set him free. It must be remembered, of course, that although the death rate was low it was also heavily weighted against people of Jewish and Moorish origin. The relative frequency of burnings in the earlier years disappeared in the eighteenth century, and in the twenty-nine years of the reigns of Charles III and Charles IV only four people were burnt

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6 Ibid., 189. “The best estimate is that around 3000 death sentences were carried out in Spain by Inquisitorial verdict between 1550 and 1800, a far smaller number than that in comparable secular courts.” Peters, ibid., 87.