Connecticut exonerates victims of 17th-century witchcraft trials

Forty-five people in the state were accused of practicing witchcraft during the trials, and 11 were executed

After almost 376 years, the bad spell that befell the innocent people accused of being witches during the US’s colonial period is over.

Connecticut last week passed a resolution exonerating people tried and executed for witchcraft nearly four centuries after their so-called crimes.