A woman convicted of being a "witch" has been acquitted after 329 years

Nearly three-and-a-half centuries ago, US lawmakers passed a unique law acquitting a water woman accused of being a "witch".

According to the Associated Press (AP), a woman was sentenced to death in the Salim Witch Trial in the US state of Massachusetts in 1693, and her sentence was commuted.

The woman was sentenced to death along with other women in the state of Massachusetts on suspicion of being a "witch" under current law.

The case is known as the Slim Witch Trial, in which at least 100 men and women were convicted of "witchcraft" at the time.

At the time, ugly people were considered 'witches', and in the United States, including Europe, it was common for such people to be convicted and sentenced by courts or kings.

According to this tradition, the Kingdom of Massachusetts executed 100 people from 1692 to 1693, of which about 3 dozen were executed.

At least a dozen men and women were sentenced to death by mass execution under the same trial, and a memorial to Salemwich still stands in Massachusetts, where half a dozen women were hanged at the same time.

Elizabeth Johnson Jr., who was 22 years old at the time and was sentenced to death as a "witch", was among the women convicted of being a "witch" about 350 years ago.

Some of the men and women convicted along with them were hanged and some were stoned to death, while others died of various diseases at the time and the state did not provide them with medical treatment. 

Elizabeth Johnson Jr., however, was not executed at the time, nor was she pardoned despite her appeals, but remained guilty until her death.

But he was recently pardoned by special legislation after being investigated by a student on the Slim Witch Trial.

According to the AP, the local state legislator of the US state of Massachusetts enacted special legislation to acquit Elizabeth Johnson and pardon her, in which the decisions of 1692 were declared invalid and thus the woman was given about three hundred and fifty. Years later, he was acquitted.