Did Christians ever use crucifixion as punishment?
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If you consider Nazis to be "Christians," it is reported crucifixion was occasionally approbated for Jewish prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp during the Holocaust. The motive for this war crime has strong religious undertones.
Or perhaps, crucifixion could be meant to include any form of public execution by live hanging. Then yes, because some Christians used impalement.
Otherwise, the answer appears to be "no."
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No. The two big users of crucifixion were the pre-Imperial Romans and the Japanese, neither of whom were Christians. Note that by Christian times crucifixion was largely a historical punishment in the Roman empire and was more an ugly memory than an everyday reality.
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This is the weirdest non-historical alteration I've ever seen on a so-called history show. In fact, the Church itself did not engage in any lethal punishment until the Albigensian crusade in the 13th century. So the attempt to crucify Athelstan by the Archbishop is completely a script writer's fantasy, as is the attempt to portray crucifixion as a usual punishment for apostasy, when the Frankish monk who instructs the Princess of Wessex in Illumination also says Athelstan should be crucified for apostasy.
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