The state is the latest to put forth legislation that would exonerate anyone who was once accused of witchcraft. Better late than never!
In the 15 years following Young’s execution, over 40 people faced trial on suspicion of cavorting with Satan. The colony’s earliest laws stated that “any man or women bee a Witch, that is, hath or consulteth with a familiar spirit, they shall bee put to death.” Nine women and two men were eventually executed. Connecticut bee brutal.
Now, over 375 years later, Young and the 11 other “witches”—who were, more often than not, a single mother, a poor mother, or both—may finally be exonerated for their witchy crimes of being a woman without a man. After receiving letters and requests from the eighth- and ninth-generation relatives of accused witches, Connecticut State Rep. Jane Garibay has proposed an exoneration bill—something ancestors and historians have been calling for, for years.
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