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by trhway 2496 days ago
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.