I’m going to trust Henry Kamen, since he’s a leading historian on the subject. His book was the first non-polemical history of the inquisition in Spain and his research literally rewrote how the Inquisition is taught. According to Kamen, the Inquisition’s prisons were nicer than the secular ones and people used to confess to heresy to have better cells.
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/excerpts/9780300180510_Kamen_excerpt.pdf
I’m going to trust Henry Kamen, since he’s a leading historian on the subject. His book was the first non-polemical history of the inquisition in Spain and his research literally rewrote how the Inquisition is taught. According to Kamen, the Inquisition’s prisons were nicer than the secular ones and people used to confess to heresy to have better cells.
Which may have meant torture was nicer, but how does this differ from what i documented?
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. (Proverbs 12:10)