Pope Innocent IV and others at the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) conceived the Inquisition, a traveling tribunal for ferreting out heretics. Dominican and Franciscan friars were usually chosen for the job, although secular authorities were also given free reign to rid the Pontiff's kingdom of suspected nonbelievers. Victims were often fingered by anonymous accusers. When they went in front of the tribunal, they had no counsel or the right to call witnesses. Torture was a regular tool for extracting confessions, and for obstinant heretics the punishment was sometimes death.