How many years after Edward Wightman's death was Aikenhead executed?
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Answer
Aikenhead was executed 85 years after Edward Wightman's death. Wightman, the last person to be burned at the stake in England for heresy, met his fate in 1612. Aikenhead, a Scottish medical student and freethinker, was hanged in Edinburgh in 1697 for denying the divinity of Christ and the authority of the Bible.
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