 The execution was implemented immediately afterwards on that same day at the main square of Birgu.These were the first and, fortunately, the last execution of the sort ever performed in Malta.However, other available records indicate that in fact it was only Petit who was executed, while Gesualdo (who could well have been a Knight Hospitaller himself) was still alive in 1550 in Malta where he faced another trial by a Council of the Knights Hospitallers and another one in 1555.