Witch hangings. No, not up in Salem, but right here in Connecticut, where 15 people were sent to the gallows between 1647 and 1663.
Now, a proposed state senate resolution would exonerate them. It's supported by descendants of those who were hanged.
Says resolution co-sponsor Jane Garibay of Windsor, the executions were a way to silence women -- to get rid of them if, in some cases, they inherited their husband's property. Killing witches, she says, was about women who said the wrong thing.
