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> out of which between 3,000 and 5,000 were executed (~2.7% of all cases)

ISTR that the percentage who died in prison awaiting trial was was rather higher, no?



From the figures in my previous post, if all 150k people prosecuted by the Spanish Inquisition died in prison or were executed, then the lower bound estimate death toll of 5 years of Cromwell would still be 50% higher than 300 years of the inquisition.




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