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  • The inquisitor questioned the accused in the presence of at least two witnesses.
    • Lily S
       
      Two witnesses so that the testimony isn't biased.
  • Penalties went from visits to churches, pilgrimages, and wearing the cross of infamy to imprisonment
  • death
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  • Death was by burning at the stake
  • In 1231, Pope Gregory IX published a decree which called for life imprisonment with salutary penance for the heretic who had confessed and repented and capital punishment for those who persisted. The secular authorities were to carry out the execution.
  • The accused had to testify against himself/herself and not have the right to face and question his/her accuser.
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