Mt. Soledad cross ordered to be taken down

[Ravenshire]

The Spanish executing the last Inca Emperor Atahualpa in 1533.
He was threatened with death by burning, which, in his beliefs, would prevent his soul going to the afterlife.
He was offered death by strangling if he would convert to Catholicism. He agreed, and was killed that way.

http://markhumphrys.com/christianity.killings.html

Not sure which is worse. The fact that the church was set on killing him regardless, or that they bought into such a transparently bogus "conversion."