Making Inferences: Some Church authorities later quotes Innocent III to justify some extreme measures, including torture and death penalty, in order to obtain confessions. Explain how his reasoning led them to defend such extreme measures.

innocent 3 defended these extreme measures because  The Spanish Inquisition, which began in the late fifteenth century, targeted Jews and Muslims in Europe, he saw the catholic reformists as a threat to the beliefs of the Catholic Church and social stability.

Explanation:

hope this makes since

it refers to race, i am pretty sure this was a popular term in nazi germany or something.

someone or something lol