Editing Inquisition (section)

=== Punishments ===
The Inquisition's sentences could be simple penances, for example  private devotions, or heavy punishments. One of the Inquisition's punishments was the forced wearing of distinctive clothing or signs  such as the [[Sanbenito|sambenito]], sometimes for an entire life.{{sfnp|Kirsch|2008|p=85}}

Other punishments were exile, compulsory [[pilgrimage]]s, fines, the [[galley]]s, life imprisonment (in fact prison for some years) and in addition the confiscation of goods and property.{{sfnp|Peters|1989|p=66-67}}<ref name="MH">{{Cite book|last=Deane|first=Jennifer K.|title=A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|year=2011|pages=113–114}}</ref> The bull [[Ad extirpanda|Ad Extirpanda]] determined that the houses of heretics should be completely razed to the ground.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Innocentius IV|date=15 May 1252|title=1243–1254 – SS Innocentius IV – Bulla 'Ad_Extirpanda' [AD 1252-05-15]|url=https://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/01p/1252-05-15,_SS_Innocentius_IV,_Bulla_'Ad_Extirpanda',_EN.pdf|website=Documenta Catholica Omnia}}</ref> Furthermore, the impact of the Inquisition's activity on the fabric of society was not limited to these penances or punishments. As under the terror of the Inquisition entire families denounced each other,  they were soon reduced to misery,  completed  by the confiscation of property, public humiliation and [[ostracism]].{{Sfnp|Saraiva|2001|p=104-105}}<ref name="MH"/>

Even dead people could be accused, and sentenced up to forty years after the death. When inquisitors considered proven that the deceased were heretics in their lifetime, their corpses were exhumed and burned, their property confiscated and the heirs disinherited.{{sfnp|Sabatini|1930|p=169-172, 222, 277–279, 432}}<ref>{{Cite book|last=Homza|first=Lu Ann|title=The Spanish Inquisition, 1478–1614 An Anthology of Sources|publisher=Hackett Publishing|year=2006|page=XIV}}</ref>