On this day – September 19th 1692 –Giles Corey tortured to death in the Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials was a series of prosecutions and executions for Witchery around the Salem are in Massachusetts, US. A total of 20 people were executed, and one of those was Giles Corey. He was accused together with his wife for witchcraft, which he testified against an allegedly accused of witchery. In his own trial refused Corey to plead guilty or not guilty. To get him to plead was he laid under an increasing load of heavy rocks, known as Peine forte et dure. He died of this torture on the 19th of September 1962 after surviving two days of this torture.
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