Janet Reid

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Charge:	Witchcraft
Sentence:	Death and Executed
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Year Convicted:	1628
Year Cleared:	2004
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
County or Region of Crime:	Scotland
City of Crime:	Prestonpans
Result:	Pardoned
Summary of Case:	"Janet Reid was wrongly convicted of witchcraft in the Prestonpans region of Scotland and executed by being burned alive at the stake. Granted Absolute Pardon on July 27, 2004 Baron Gordon Prestoungrange, along with 80 other people wrongly convicted of witchcraft in the 16th and 17th century. Tried of witchcraft by local commission ordered by the Privy Council or the Committee of Estates acting for Parliament."
Conviction Caused By:	"False confession of being a witch coerced by physical torture. Also, prosecutorial misconduct by reliance on the general publics gullibility and fear of witches to allow a coerced confession to witchcraft unsubstantiated by any substantive evidence to suffice to support a witchcraft conviction."
Innocence Proved By:	"Absolute Pardon on July 27, 2004 by Baron Gordon Prestoungrange of the Prestonpans region of Scotland."
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Sex:	Female
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Judgement and Declarator, Barons Courts of Prestoungrange & Dolphinstoun, Trinity Session: Elizabeth II. 53. 2004, July - November, July 27, 2004."
Information Location 1:	http://www.prestoungrange.org/core-files/archive/trinity_session/06_absolute_pardon_for_witches.pdf
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Janet Reid

Charge:

Witchcraft

Sentence:

Death and Executed

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1628

Year Cleared:

2004

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

Scotland

City of Crime:

Prestonpans

Result:

Pardoned

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"False confession of being a witch coerced by physical torture. Also, prosecutorial misconduct by reliance on the general publics gullibility and fear of witches to allow a coerced confession to witchcraft unsubstantiated by any substantive evidence to suffice to support a witchcraft conviction."

Innocence Proved By:

"Absolute Pardon on July 27, 2004 by Baron Gordon Prestoungrange of the Prestonpans region of Scotland."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Judgement and Declarator, Barons Courts of Prestoungrange & Dolphinstoun, Trinity Session: Elizabeth II. 53. 2004, July - November, July 27, 2004."

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http://www.prestoungrange.org/core-files/archive/trinity_session/06_absolute_pardon_for_witches.pdf

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