>From June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, a slope near Salem Village, for hanging. Another man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges. Hundreds of others faced accusations of witchcraft. Dozens got put in jail for months without trials. Then, almost as soon as it had begun, the …showed first 75 words of 966 total…

…showed last 75 words of 966 total…of history or risk repeating its mistakes. Salem should warn us to think hard about how to best safeguard and improve our system of justice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** THE SALEM WITCHCRAFT TRIALS: LINKS AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY INTERNET http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/puritan/puritan.html http://www.salemweb.com/witches.htm http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/learn.html Books Boyer, Paul and Nissenbaum, Stephen, eds., Salem-Village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England (1972).