Who Is To Blame For The Salem Witch Trials Inhumane?

Have you ever been accused of something you honestly didn’t do? Have you ever used somebody as a scapegoat because you were afraid of getting in trouble yourself? In 1692 in the small community of Salem, Massachusetts, a strange sickness had started to ail a young girl. She had fits of pain, hallucinations, and she vomited uncontrollably. The doctor’s diagnosis? Bewitchment. Thus, the hysteria called the Salem Witchcraft Trials began. The Salem Witchcraft Trials were fear-driven acts that were inhumane because the persecutions were unjust, innocent people were killed in horrid ways, and the Salem community was full of filthy, fearful liars. The justice system in Salem in 1692 was horribly corrupted. Unjust rulings against innocent people

Among the numerous victims, four women died in prison, one man was pressed to death with stones, and 19 people were hung. Two dogs were also killed under the suspicion that they were spectres, or witches’ accomplices (Alchin).The first woman to needlessly die was Bridget Bishop, a wife, mother, and friend to the community that killed her. She was followed by five women just like her; Wife, mother, daughter, and friend to Salem. All were hung (Lewis). One man, Giles Corey, was pressed to death. When he refused enter a plea in the witch trials, they tried to force him to enter a plea by stripping him naked, placing a board on his back, and piling it up with stones. He was given no food or water, but when he was asked to enter a plea, he would call for more weight, a resounding and courageous ‘no’. After two days of this treatment he died, and was buried in an unmarked grave. Pressing was illegal at that time, but it is supposed that the Judge knew nothing of the discontinuation of the torture (Lewis). I believe, however, that they knew and yet still wanted to inflict torture and pain upon an innocent man that they were going to kill anyway. The ignorance of the people in Salem is astounding. While they were falsely accusing their neighbors and family of evils that never took place, they were in turn murdering their own people out of fear of the