Execution of Atahualpa Despite Ransom Payment

Pizarro has Atahualpa tried on charges of polygamy, idolatry, fratricide (for ordering Huascar killed), and plotting against the Spanish. Convicted and sentenced to death, he is garrotted rather than burned after agreeing to accept baptism at the last moment (burning was reserved for heretics; Christians could be strangled). Atahualpa had learned to play chess and to read from guards during captivity. His execution was explicitly condemned by Emperor Charles V as illegal and unjust, but the deed was done.