What allusion to the Spanish Inquisition is presented in "The Pit and the Pendulum"?

The setting for "" initially seems rather vague. The Latin quatrain in the
epigraph refers to the Jacobins, not the Inquisition, and the references in the first paragraph
to white-lipped, black-robed judges could refer to any tribunal, real or imaginary. Most of the
incidental references in the story are of the same type, even those which use the term
"inquisitorial," usually without the capital "I." They could refer to any
judicial proceeding.

It is only after the narrator has just avoided falling
into the pit that he refers directly to the Inquisitionto say that the death he had just avoided
was exactly of the type that he had always "regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales
respecting the Inquisition." There are a few more direct references to the Spanish
Inquisition when the narrator says that hope whispers even to the death-condemned in their cells
and later when he realizes, conversely, that his escape from one means of death is a trivial
matter,...