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by ryanmarsh 2497 days ago
Curious, how many executions per year could there possibly be in Bamberg, Bavaria?
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The only figures I could see casually were that there were approximately 2,000 per year in England during the reign of Henry VIII...so I guess it's not insane to imagine a mid-size town in Germany having 10 or 15 a year? Which would surely be enough to justify professional help?
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.

Well, in his diary he says he executed more than 350 people in his 45 year career. So... about eight on average?