Saw this tonight on WTNH, channel * in CT. www.wtnh.com Bertha Hall Legislature considers bill denouncing Connecticut witch hunts By ConnPolitics.tv Staff, on Mar 20, 2008 Hartford (AP) _ Centuries after the fact, state lawmakers are hoping to bring justice to those judged during Connecticut's colonial witch trials. The Judiciary Committee is hearing testimony on a resolution that denounces the trials as shocking and the result of community-wide hysteria and fear. The resolution also states that those convicted and their ancestors should be freed from the stigma of the witchcraft accusations. Connecticut's witch trials were held between 1647 and 1697. It's estimated that about 10 women were executed, mostly by hanging. Others were banished, fled the colony or indicted. One women was dropped into water to see if she possessed evil spirits, but was later given a reprieve by the General Assembly. Some men were also tried for witchcraft in Connecticut.