Senators in Connecticut voted to absolve 12 people who were convicted of witchcraft over 370 years ago. The Senate voted 33-1 in favor of absolving the men and women.
The resolution, which lists the nine women and two men who were executed and the one woman who was convicted and given a reprieve, already passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 121-30. Because it's a resolution, it does not require the governor's signature.
"I don’t want to see bills that rightfully or wrongfully attempt to paint America as a bad place with a bad history," Sampson added."I want us to focus on where we’re going, which is a brighter and better future. And I don’t want to see anyone try and put a stain on the country that I love." Beth Caruso, author and co-founder of the CT Witch Trial Exoneration Project, stands on the Palisado Green in Windsor, Connecticut, on Jan. 24, 2023. Connecticut senators voted on May 25, 2023, to absolve the 12 women and men convicted of witchcraft over 370 years ago.
, was the first person on record to be executed in the American colonies for witchcraft. The Windsor town clerk registered the death on May 26, 1647, in a diary entry that read:"Alse Young was hanged."
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