 Although several charges against him were initially mentioned - including enslaving Native Americans, only the charge of covering up the practicing Judaism of his sister and her children remained.In the end he was sentenced to a six-year exile in an auto-da-fe held on 24 February 1590 in Mexico City.However, before the sentence was carried out, he was sent back to the jail of the Court, where he died, nearly one year later, on 13 February 1591.