Woman condemned in Salem witch trials on verge of pardon 328 years later

Elizabeth Johnson Jr, who was convicted and sentenced to death in 1693, could be cleared thanks to an eighth-grade civics class

More than three centuries after a Massachusetts woman was convicted of witchcraft and sentenced to death, she's finally on the verge of being exonerated - thanks to a curious eighth-grade civics class.

State senator Diana DiZoglio, a Democrat from Methuen, has introduced legislation to clear the name of Elizabeth Johnson Jr, who was condemned in 1693 at the height of the Salem witch trials but never executed.