Actually there are about 5000 or less documented deaths in the 350 years or so the inquisition spans. Some other estimates:Um, the estimations of the death toll for the Inquisition are between 600,000 and as high as 9,000,000
Spanish Inquisition (1478-1834)
- Cited in Will Durant, The Reformation (1957):
- Juan Antonio Llorente, General Secretary of the Inquisition from 1789 to 1801, estimated that 31,912 were executed, 1480-1808.
- In contrast to the high estimate cited above, Durant tosses his support to the following low estimates:
- Hernando de Pulgar, secretary to Queen Isabella, estimated 2,000 burned before 1490.
- An unnamed "Catholic historian" estimated 2,000 burned, 1480-1504, and 2,000 burned, 1504-1758.
- PGtH: 8,800 deaths by burning, 1478-1496
- Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church (1910): 8,800 burnt in 18 years of Torquemada. (acc2 Buckle and Friedländer)
- Motley, Rise of the Dutch Republic: 10,220 burnt in 18 years of Torquemada
- Britannica: 2,000
- Aletheia, The Rationalist's Manual: 35,534 burned.
- Fox's Book of Martyrs, Ch.IV: 32,000 burned
- Paul Johnson A History of the Jews (1987): 32,000 k. by burning; 20,226 k. before 1540
- Wertham: 250,000
- Rummel: 350,000 deaths overall.
- MEDIAN: 8,800 under Torq.; 32,000 all told.
- Punished by all means, not death.
- Fox: 309,000
- P. Johnson: 341,000
- Motley: 114,401









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