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On May 26, 1647, Alice "Alse" Young was ordered to Hartford, Conn., to be hanged. Young, a botanist, was accused of using witchcraft to start a pandemic that resulted in children's deaths in nearby Windsor.
Witchcraft trials were an institutional problem that still has not been remedied.
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375 years after America hanged its first “witch” in Hartford, a multi-state coalition of descendants and activists are calling on Connecticut legislators to exonerate the victims of the Connecticut witch trials.