The Beis Yosef relates the following story:
"Once a rabbi slaughtered many children during shmad, because he was afraid the enemy would make them leave their religion. Another rabbi present was angry at him and called him a murderer, but he did not listen. The opposing rabbi declared, “If I am correct, may that rabbi be killed in an abnormal way!” And so it happened; the non-Jews caught him, flayed his skin and placed sand between the flesh and the skin. Afterwards, the decree was nullified, and had he not slaughtered them, they may have possibly been saved and not killed."
ב"י (בבדק הבית) יו"ד סי' קנ,ז ד"ה ומ"ש רבינו על שאר עבירות, ע"ש אריכות השו"ט בזה
"Rav Hoshochet" and "Rav Hamoneia."
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