Gunshot wound, emergency last rites & clergy spilling blood

[rusquen]

Hello everyone! I have a scene that is giving me trouble on both medical and psychological levels and would appreciate any help I can get

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[anonymous]

Not only was the Inquisition not allowed to execute people (secular authorities did that, and incidentally: burning at the stake was a pretty standard punishment for various 'heinous' crimes at the time - i.e. theft will get you hanged, treason will get you burned - or for any capital crime committed by a woman, because misogyny.) but the torturers of the Inquisition were officially not allowed to spill blood (unlike the torturers that were part of the standard secular justice system that mostly required confessions for convictions - there was a good reason why clerical staff and university students tried to keep up their status of falling under Church jurisdiction for so long). This means that the basic go-to method of torture for the Inquisition was strappado (there's a Wikipedia page on that - basically, shoulder dislocation from hanging by the arms). All those iron maidens and pears of anguish are much later inventions by Protestant people wanting to make the torture museums that much more gruesome.

Source: Various university lectures on medieval / renaissance history.