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In the Seventeenth century, between February 1692 and May 1693, 20 people were executed in Colonial America during an episode of mass hysteria that would become known as the Salem Witch Trials. While the majority of the victims were executed by hanging, one man, Giles Corey, was pressed to death. Pressing, for those not up to speed on archaic forms of…
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