Karla Hailer, a teacher from Scituate, Mass., takes a video on July 19, 2017, where a memorial stands at the site in Salem, Mass., where five women were hanged as witches more than three centuries years earlier. Massachusetts lawmakers on have formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name 329 years after she was convicted of witchcraft at the height of the Salem Witch Trials. (Stephan Savoia/AP)
BOSTON — It took more than three centuries, but the last Salem "witch" who wasn't has been officially pardoned.
Massachusetts lawmakers on Thursday formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name 329 years after she was convicted of witchcraft in 1693 and sentenced to death at the height of the Salem Witch Trials.
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