Right, just like Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for littering, among other things.
Bruno’s case is still considered a landmark in the history of free thought and the future of the emerging sciences.
Only because many on the left, and more who have other issues with the Catholic Church would like to make it so. Unfortunately, there's no there there. As I said, the idea of executing someone for disagreeing with the Church on spiritual matters like transubstantiation or the Virgin Birth is barbaric in its own right. But there is about as much evidence that astrology had anything to do with Bruno's execution as there is that Officer Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown for being black.
Uhm, astrology? Heh. Did you just make your own point?