One of his first acts, after preventing the application of capital punishment to the ringleaders of the revolt, was to veto the project of protecting the khedive and his government by means of a Praetorian guard recruited from Asia Minor, Epirus, Austria and Switzerland, and to insist on the principle that Egypt must be governed in a truly liberal spirit.
As a religious man, he wrote and strove in favour of tolerance, being decidedly against capital punishment for heretics.
Do I believe capital punishment is a good idea?
Consequently corporal and even capital punishment occupy a far less prominent position, and tend everywhere to disappear.
The Swiss churches, while agreeing to condemn Servetus, say nothing of capital punishment in their letters of advice.