“Of the roughly 150,000 people brought before the Spanish Inquisition over the course of its 350-year-existence, somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 people were actually executed. The number of people murdered in the US in 2018 alone was 15,498 people.”https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2020/07/24/steven-pinkers-the-better-angels-of-our-nature-debunked/ …
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Yeah, and did you read the whole text? Pinker claims in his book that crucifixion was "widely used" and that the sentence was meted out for "petty crimes". It wasn't, and the blogger is specifically rebutting such claims.
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And evidently the most common form of Roman execution was beheading outside the city walls, with no crowd in sight. A method of execution still known in the 20th century France and Germany. Crucifixion was in the category known as "summa supplicia", the most severe punishment.
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