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Giles Corey (bapt. Tooltip baptized 16 August 1611 – 19 September 1692) was an English-born farmer who was accused of witchcraft along with his wife Martha Corey during the Salem witch trials in the Province of Massachusetts Bay .
Abigail Faulkner is given a temporary stay of execution because she is pregnant. Rebecca Earnes, Mary Lacy Sr., Ann Foster and Abigail Hobbs plead guilty to the charges and await sentencing. September 19: Giles Corey is pressed to death for refusing to agree to be tried "before God and the Country" (i.e., a jury).
John Willard - Died August 19, 1692 (aged 35), execution by hanging. Martha Corey - Died September 22, 1692 (aged 72), execution by hanging. Mary Eastey - Died September 22, 1692 (aged 58), execution by hanging. Mary Parker - Died September 22, 1692 (aged 55), execution by hanging. Alice Parker - Died September 22, 1692, execution by hanging.
Giles Corey, an 81-year-old farmer from the southeast end of Salem (called Salem Farms), refused to enter a plea when he came to trial in September. The judges applied an archaic form of punishment called peine forte et dure, in which stones were piled on his chest until he could no longer breathe.
Giles Corey: White Male ? Witchcraft/Salem witch trials 1692-09-16 ... Date of execution Method of execution County 1 Esther Rodgers 21 White Female Servant
Bridget Bishop (née Magnus; c. 1632 – 10 June 1692) was the first person executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in 1692. Nineteen were hanged, and one, Giles Corey, was pressed to death.
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday set a Sept. 24 execution date for Marcellus Williams, even as the inmate awaits a court hearing on his claim that he was not involved in the murder that ...
And at a special court of Oyer and Termina holden at Salem in the county of Essex in the same year 1692, George Burroughs of Wells, John Proctor, George Jacobs, John Williard, Giles Corey and Martha his wife, Rebecca Nurse and Sarah Good, all of Salem aforesaid; Elizabeth How of Ipswich; Mary Easty, Sarah Wilde and Abigail Hobbs all of ...