the end of Kunze

alrighty then.  Once again, I was very, very disturbed by all the torture going on.  Is it really necessary to torture the condemned before they die?  Doesn't that make you just as bad as the people you have sentenced to death? A lot of the things they did were so horrific to me that I could barely read it, such as the red hot pincers and forcing the child to watch.  The thing that got me through was thinking about The Hunchback of Notre Dame.  Whenever I think of burning witches, I think of Quasimodo saving Esmerelda, and that helps me to get through it.  But... speaking of the Hunchback, and Frollo, how did the officials justify this?  Didn't someone, anyone raise any objections to this?