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Oh sure, disease, I forgot about disease. How could I forget about that?
Anyway - Yes, there were public executions in Europe. Yes, other Mesoamericans employed human sacrifice. But the Aztecs did it to an exponentially higher amount, and with extreme cruelty.
I am confident in saying that the practice of human sacrifice is wrong, and that the imagined "benefits" were not achieved by state-driven mass murder.
European executions could be excessively cruel. Being burned alive, drowned, stoning, crucifixion, being eaten alive by rats escaping hot coals, or being locked in a cage to die from exposure is on the same level as having one's heart cut out or being shot with arrows. Europeans would impale men on pikes and the Tenochca would rack skulls, apples to oranges but it's all the same fruit.