Eleven of these persons were hanged following their convictions for “witchcraft” in the mid-17th century, while the twelfth escaped.
A US state has posthumously exonerated a dozen people convicted of “witchcraft” in trials that took place nearly 400 years ago, during colonial America.
Eleven of these persons were hanged after their convictions for “witchcraft” in the state of Connecticut (northeast), in the mid-17th century, while the twelfth escaped.
Connecticut senators on Thursday adopted a resolution in their cases, declaring the innocence of the men and calling the sentences handed down to nine women and two men a “miscarriage of justice.”
An organization of descendants of the victims, the CT Witch Trial Exoneration Project, expressed satisfaction in the press release that it issued for the approval of the resolution by the parliamentarians. He campaigned for their posthumous rehabilitation.
The Connecticut decision was recorded on the eve of the 376th anniversary of the first hanging of a woman convicted of witchcraft in New England, that of Alice Young.
Hundreds of people, the vast majority of them women, were accused of “witchcraft” in 17th-century New England, especially in the infamous Salem, Massachusetts, trials of 1692 to 1693, which were dominated by fear, paranoia, and superstition.
Source :Skai
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