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| Elizabeth Johnson was 22 when she was charged |
A woman in the US state of Massachusetts has been acquitted of a witchcraft lawsuit filed three centuries ago.
Heard But he was neither pardoned nor executed. The court heard the case last year after eighth-graders investigated Elizabeth Johnson's acquittal and handed her over to a Democratic senator.
"We can't change what happened to Elizabeth Johnson and the other women, but at least we can fix the record," said Diana Dzoglio.
She was the last to be accused of witchcraft.
Senator John Lowley said: "For three centuries no one has heard Elizabeth Johnson's voice.
His story was lost in the pages of history.
Elizabeth Johnson was 22 years old when the case was filed and was sentenced to death.
In those 329 years, many people were pardoned, including Elizabeth Johnson's mother and the daughter of a minister.
But Elizabeth Johnson was not forgiven for missing the record.
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