Connecticut exonerates victims of 17th-century witch trials

Beth Caruso, co-founder of the Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project. Photograph: Jessica Hill/AP

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.