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Bridget Bishop

 

Charge:

Witchcraft

Sentence:

Death and Executed

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1692

Year Cleared:

2001

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Massachusetts

County or Region of Crime:

Essex

City of Crime:

Salem

Result:

Legislature Overturned Conviction after Execution

Summary of Case:

"Susannah Martin, Bridget Bishop, Alice Parker, Margaret Scott, and Wilmot Redd were exonerated on November 1, 2001, when acting Massachusetts governor Jane Swift signed a bill pardoning the five accused witches hanged in Salem in 1692 and 1693 who were no"

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Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Executed Salem Witches Exonerated, by Steve LeBlanc (AP), Worldwide Religious News, November 2, 2001"

Information Location 1:

http://wwrn.org/articles/9431/?§ion=occult

Information Source 2:

"Witchcraft Trials, Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained"

Information Location 2:

http://www.unexplainedstuff.com/Magic-and-Sorcery/Witchcraft-Trials-Salem-massachusetts.html

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