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Giovanni Battista Bugatti, executioner of the Papal States between 1796 and 1861, carried out 516 executions.. This is a list of people executed in the Papal States under the government of the Popes or during the 1810–1819 decade of French rule.
As Vatican City is a sacerdotal-monarchical state ruled by the Pope, who is the bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church, its laws are influenced by Church teaching. Giovanni Battista Bugatti , executioner of the Papal States between 1796 and 1865, carried out 516 executions (Bugatti pictured offering snuff to a condemned prisoner in ...
Giovanni Battista Bugatti (1779–1869) was the official executioner for the Papal States from 1796 to 1864. He was the longest-serving executioner in the States and was nicknamed Mastro Titta, a Roman corruption of maestro di giustizia, or master of justice. [1] At the age of 85 he was retired by Pope Pius IX with a monthly pension of 30 scudi.
Note the executioner's eyes falling out of his head ... Jan Huss (1415) and Jerome of Prague (1416) - executed for heresy by the Roman Catholic ... Andrew Dung-Lac ...
The 1911 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia suggested that "the infliction of capital punishment is not contrary to the teaching of the Catholic Church, and the power of the State to visit upon culprits the penalty of death derives much authority from revelation and from the writings of theologians", but that the matter of "the advisability ...
Antoninus (died 186) was a public executioner in Rome. It is believed that during the trial of St. Eusebius he had a vision and converted to Christianity . The proclamation of his faith cost him his life, and he was beheaded in 186.
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John Rigby (ca. 1570 – 21 June 1600) was an English Roman Catholic layman who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I. He is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. (He is called "Thomas" Rigby in The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest, a story about the Jesuit priest John Gerard.) [1]