Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Witchcraft |
Sentence: |
Death and Executed |
Years Imprisoned: |
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Year Crime: |
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Year Convicted: |
1692 |
Year Cleared: |
1957 |
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: |
"Ann Pudeator was wrongly convicted of witchcraft in Salem, MA during what is now known as the Salem Witch Trials. Pudeator was exonerated in 1957 by the Massachusetts General Court, which is the name of the Massachusetts state legislature when it votes as an entire body on quasi-judicial matters." |
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Innocence Proved By: |
"Ann Pudeator was exonerated in 1957 by the Massachusetts General Court, which is the name of the Massachusetts state legislature when it votes as an entire body on quasi-judicial matters." |
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Was Perpetrator Identified? |
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Sex: |
Female |
Skin/Ethnicity: |
White |
Information Source 1: |
"Ann Pudeator, Wikipedia.org, (last visited 12-12-2011)" |
Information Location 1: |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Pudeator |
Information Source 2: |
"Reversal of Attainder, October 17, 1711" |
Information Location 2: |
http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/archives/ecca/large/ecca2136r.jpg |
Information Source 3: |
"PETITIONS FOR COMPENSATION AND DECISION CONCERNING COMPENSATION, 1710 -1711, Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692, (Famous American Trials website)" |
Information Location 3: |
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SAL_PET.HTM |
Information Source 4: |
"Witchcraft Trials, Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained" |
Information Location 4: |
http://www.unexplainedstuff.com/Magic-and-Sorcery/Witchcraft-Trials-Salem-massachusetts.html |
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Innocents Database Created and Maintained by Hans Sherrer innocents@forejustice.org