Connecticut is considering exonerating accused witches who were executed in the 1600s.
Such was the case of Mary Johnson, a servant in Wethersfield, Connecticut, who was accused of"familiarity with the Devil."
"It's important to right the wrongs of the past so we learn from them and move on and not repeat those mistakes," said Joshua Hutchinson, of Prescott Valley, Arizona, who traced his ancestry to accused witches in Salem and is the host of the"Thou Shalt Not Suffer: The Witch Trial Podcast." Beth Caruso, an author, co-founded the CT Witch Trial Exoneration Project in 2005 to clear the names of the accused. The group is encouraging people who discovered through genealogy research that they are descendants of victims to contact Connecticut state legislators and urge them to support exoneration legislation.
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