The heretic was burned at the stake.

Heretics were executed.

The gods do not take kindly to heretics.

I'm not a heretic.

In the 15th century the Spanish inquisitor Pedro de Arbués de Épila organized in Zaragoza a game of "living chess" with heretics to stand in as figures who were put to death when they were "captured". In 1867 Arbués was canonized by Pope Pius IX.

It wasn't very long ago that Europeans were burning heretics at the stake.

The heretics were burned alive.

The translators of the New Testament were considered heretics.

Heretics were tortured.

Heretics were subjected to torture.