<Li> The defendant could be penanced . Since they were considered guilty, they had to publicly abjure their crimes (de levi if it was a misdemeanor, and de vehementi if the crime were serious), and accept a public punishment . Among these were sanbenito, exile, fines or even sentencing to service as oarsmen in royal galleys . </Li> <Li> The defendant could be reconciled . In addition to the public ceremony in which the condemned was reconciled with the Catholic Church, more severe punishments were used, among them long sentences to jail or the galleys, plus the confiscation of all property . Physical punishments, such as whipping, were also used . </Li> <Li> The most serious punishment was relaxation to the secular arm . The Inquisition had no power to actually kill the convict or determine the way in which they should die, that was a right of the King . Burning at the stake was a possibility, probably kept from the Papal Inquisition of Aragon, but a very uncommon one . This penalty was frequently applied to impenitent heretics and those who had relapsed . Execution was public . If the condemned repented, they were shown mercy by being garroted before getting their corpse burned; if not, they were burned alive . </Li> <P> Frequently, cases were judged in absentia, and when the accused died before the trial finished, the condemned were burned in effigy . </P>

Who decided to emigrate from the peninsula at the time of the inquisition