A woman who was wrongly convicted of witchcraft in Massachusetts in 1693 and sentenced to hang has been formally exonerated.
It took more than three centuries, but the last Salem "witch" who wasn’t has been officially pardoned.
"We will never be able to change what happened to victims like Elizabeth but at the very least can set the record straight," DiZoglio said. Johnson is the last accused witch to be cleared, according to Witches of Massachusetts Bay, a group devoted to the history and lore of the 17th-century witch hunts.
, stoked by superstition, fear of disease and strangers, scapegoating and petty jealousies. Nineteen were hanged, and one man was crushed to death by rocks.
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