Benedikt Carpzov Jr.
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Benedikt Carpzov the Younger was a German criminal lawyer and a witchcraft theoretician who wrote extensively on witch processes. His 1635 work Practica Rerum Criminalium dealt with the trial of those accused of witchcraft, supporting the use of torture to extract confessions from the accused; as many as 20,000 people may have been killed as a consequence of his efforts. Carpzov is considered the founder of the German jurisprudence. He is also known under pen-name Ludovicus de Montesperato.
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