Original sentence: And, while Calvin also wrote the heresy charges, Geneva's city council did far more to steer Servetus' trial, sentence, and burning at the stake.Calvin asked the council for a more humane execution – beheading instead of the stake – but his appeal was denied, and the sentence carried out on 27 October 1553.Calvin had a great commitment to the absolute sovereignty and holiness of God.Calvin was reluctant to ordain Genevans, preferring to choose more qualified pastors from the stream of French immigrants pouring into the city for the express purpose of supporting his own program of reform.Calvin's acceptance of torture in particular is reprehensible to modern sensibilities and is rejected by modern Calvinists, but in this view, he was in accord with the prevailing attitude of that age.Offenses ranged from propounding false doctrine to moral infractions, such as wild dancing and bawdy singing.Servetus was burned along with every available copy of his final work, De Trinitatis Erroribus, only three known copies of which survived – two in Calvin's own possession
Edited sentence: After this show trial, whose outcome was never in doubt, Servetus was burned along with every available copy of his final work, De Trinitatis Erroribus, only three known copies of which survived – two in Calvin's own possession.Calvin had a great belief in the absolute sovereignty and holiness of God.Calvin sat at the prosecutors, provided all witnesses and documents (including his own copies of Servetus' authored and edited works).Calvin was reluctant to ordain Genevans, preferring to choose pastors from the stream of French immigrants pouring into the city for the express purpose of supporting his own program of reform.Calvin's acceptance of torture in particular is reprehensible and has been rejected by modern Calvinists, but in this view, he was in accord with the prevailing attitude of that age.Offenses ranged from propounding false doctrine to moral infractions, such as dancing and bawdy singing