Crime and Punishment in the Seventeenth-century

Material A is a print in the middle of the 17th century showing the "swimming test" of a woman dominated by magic. Swimming tests are used to find witches. The accused are submerged in the water, and if they float on water they are convicted of magic. Source A shows a unified audience. The fact that they are wearing uniforms indicates that the swimming test is an accredited case. The source also shows creatures that look like pigs that might represent the familiarity of the witches.

Magic became death sentences in New England in the 17th century. Magical madness is caused by a group of girls (Kent 95). Magic is considered a terrible crime in Europe; that punishment is to hang up or bake until death (Dolan 8). Everyone at Salem Village believes in magic, and only a few people are trying to use it (Kent 18). In 1692, panic at Salem Village is a major event in American history and will never be forgotten. - Salem Witch trial In Salem Witch trial in Massachusetts in 1692, 19 innocent men and women were murdered, one man died forcibly, and 17 died in prison. It all began at the end of 1691. Several girls in the town started to experiment the magic by finding the answer to the questions around the crystal ball.

In Salem in the 17th century, Massachusetts was a port town that was occupied mainly by Puritan settlers who came here from the UK in the 17th century. For settlers, belief in magic passes away, and if arrested it will be sentenced to death. Salem Witch Trial was a series of lawsuits surrounding magic in 1692, more than 100 people were sued, 19 people were hanged and one was forced.

Since the beginning of the 17th century, the death penalty exists in the United States. In the United States, the first execution record was the execution of Captain George Kendall in 1608 colony of Jamestown, Virginia. During the colonial era, the crime of promoting the death penalty was different. In the Massachusetts bay colony, all offenses such as magic, rape, perjury, adultery, murder are all necessary for death penalty. In Quaker society, crimes such as treason and murder require a death sentence judgment. In 1787, Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, held a meeting to prevent public executions at the home of Benjamin Franklin. In the fall of 1787, Rush launched an association to alleviate the suffering of public prison. Society played an important role in the development of the US prison system. In 1790, Philadelphia's Walnut Street Prison was renovated into the first modern prison in the country. Emergence of the prison system!