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Ryan Fahey

Last Salem 'witch' finally pardoned 329 years after she was wrongly convicted

A woman branded a witch of Salem has now been pardoned 329 years after being wrongly convicted by a New England court in the 1700s.

Elizabeth Johnson Jr was one of 30 men and women found guilty of practicing witchcraft between February 1962 and May 1963 in colonial Massachusetts.

Elizabeth was not one of the 19 executed by hanging - but her name remained tarred by her conviction until her death in 1747, age 77.

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