Salem’s last witch, pardoned 329 years after her death sentence
Reading time: 2 min — Spotted on The Guardian Hundreds were accused of sorcery, and of the inhabitants of Salem and its environs, twenty persons were executed, women and men, sent to the gallows, the last recalcitrant having been crushed by stones. It was in 1692, in Salem Village, now renamed Danvers, Massachusetts, that the … Read more