Last Salem ‘witch’ pardoned 329 years after she was wrongly convicted
by Maya Yang and agencies from US news | The Guardian on (#5ZQ6F)
Massachusetts lawmakers formally exonerate Elizabeth Johnson Jr, who was sentenced to death in 1693
It took more than three centuries, but the last Salem witch" has been officially pardoned.
Massachusetts lawmakers on Thursday formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr, clearing her name 329 years after she was wrongly convicted of witchcraft in 1693 and sentenced to death at the height of the Salem witch trials.
Continue reading...