Lawmakers agreed to reconsider her case last year after a curious eighth-grade civics class took up her cause.
BOSTON — It took more than three centuries, but the last Salem"witch" who wasn't has been officially pardoned.
Lawmakers agreed to reconsider her case last year after a curious eighth-grade civics class at North Andover Middle School took up her cause and researched the legislative steps needed to clear her name. People are also reading… In a statement, North Andover teacher Carrie LaPierre — whose students championed the legislation — praised the youngsters for taking on"the long-overlooked issue of justice for this wrongly convicted woman."
"For 300 years, Elizabeth Johnson Jr. was without a voice, her story lost to the passages of time," said state Sen. Joan Lovely, of Salem, In the more than three centuries that have ensued, dozens of suspects officially were cleared, including Johnson's own mother, the daughter of a minister whose conviction eventually was reversed.
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