Salem Witch Trials

Dear Governor:

It seems that God is seeking to punish us for our sins, sending Satan into our humble town of Salem to wreak havoc and chaos around us. He sends his minions, his witches, to do his bidding, and now poor Betty Parris, daughter Reverend Samuel Parris, lies in bed, breaking into fits of convulsions and hallucination, and often crying out in terror.

We must purge Salem of this evil, to end God¡¯s wrath. To repent this sin of ¡°entering into a compact with the Devil in exchange for certain powers to do evil¡±, quoth from Tim Sutter, these sinners must be hanged, under the basis for the Bay Colony¡¯s legal structure: ¡°those who are accused of consorting with the devil are considered felons, having committed a crime against their government. The punishment for such a crime is hanging.¡±

I, along with many others, wish to ensure that every last witch be discovered and punished as the means towards appeasing God¡¯s anger. We have sinned greatly,...