From wiki so take it with a grain of salt but it looks to be about 40 total...
In Massachusetts, there are two cases of burning at the stake. First, in 1681, a slave named Maria tried to kill her owner by setting his house on fire. She was convicted of arson and burned at the stake at Roxbury, Massachusetts.[10] Concurrently, a slave named Jack, convicted in a separate arson case, was hanged at a nearby gallows, and after death his body was thrown into the fire with that of Maria. Second, in 1755, a group of slaves had conspired and killed their owner, with servants Mark and Phillis executed for his murder. Mark was hanged and his body gibbeted, and Phillis burned at the stake, at Cambridge, Massachusetts.[11]
In New York several burnings at the stake are recorded, particularly following suspected slave revolt plots. In 1708 one woman was burnt and one man hanged. In the aftermath of the New York Slave Revolt of 1712 20 people were burnt, and during the alleged slave conspiracy of 1741 no less than 13 slaves were burnt at the stake.[12]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_burning#Historical_usage
what was cut from the actual quote was “based on religious ideals”. Adjust these numbers to JUST religious reasons and only after 1776 and the answer is?
About burning at the stake... whoops....count me wrong. A few were executed in America that way...
It doesn’t appear though, these executions were religiously motivated however—which in Europe, was virtually always what burning at the stake was (supposed to be) about.
In Europe, heresy was punished (by the secular rulers) after the Church authorities had a trial (an inquisition) examining a person for heresy. If convicted, then the victim would be turned over to the state authorities for execution (so the Church wouldn’t technically kill anyone...).
In the 1550s,something like 400 Protestant leaders died this way under “Bloody” Queen Mary of England—a fanatical Roman Catholic. When moderate Queen Elizabeth I (whom they named Virginia after) took over there was great rejoicing in England by the Protestants.
Part of the reason for using fire for heresy was to warn others of the terrors of hell (awaiting heretics), to “purge” the community by fire...and, interestingly, so the Church could not be accused of “shedding blood.”
Wait just a minute, if you count Native Americans, the number is far higher.
Probably no documentation, but the tribal root doctor often blamed disease, famine etc. on an absent aged chief. Then he would be set upon and killed. No doubt they burned a few. Practice was highly discouraged by U.S. in the 1870s.
I read that there was an Indian or several burned alive at the stake in the late 1800s Oklahoma Territory for rape. It was lynching without hanging.
Can’t find the book I read it in.
Quite a few people hanged and then burned, mostly Negros during the Lynching years and two whites burned after being hanged in a range war in Nebraska.
Wow. Great find. I said zero, but I was obviously wrong.