The lesson discusses life for prisoners at the Inquisitor’s Palace in Malta and the severe punishments they faced, including imprisonment and the rare occurrence of being burned at the stake. In 1546, under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Palermo, a man was executed for spreading Protestantism, marking Malta’s only recorded case of such a punishment. Due to limited prison space, sentences were often brief, but exceptions existed, while prisoners were sometimes forced to work, particularly captured Muslim slaves.