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Studies of the records have found that the overwhelming majority of sentences consisted of penances, but that cases of repeat unrepentant heretics were handed over to the secular courts, which generally resulted in execution or life imprisonment. | Studies of the records have found that the overwhelming majority of sentences consisted of penances, but that cases of repeat unrepentant heretics were handed over to the secular courts, which generally resulted in execution or life imprisonment. | ||
Estimates of total executions across Inquisitions from all territories over the course of 700 years vary widely with a range from 2,000 to more than 50 million. However, there is a generally-accepted scholarly consensus of between 30,000 - 150,000. The official number of executions recognized by the Catholic Church in the modern era is 6,000. | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||