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IntroductionFrom 1692 to 1693 in Boston Massachusetts many a(prenominal) plurality were accused of practicing witchcraft. In this year close to 200 hoi polloi were accused of practicing the call downs magic and they were put on trial with the possibility of the last verdict of either life or death. This dark magic was usually associated with random outburst, screaming, and certain positions foreign to those around them, and other things people effectuate were out of the norm and unnatural. During this time people lived a puritan lifestyle, the devil was made very real, and this conservative and rigid lifestyle gave way to a strong belief in the devil. A total of nineteen people were hung During the Salem Witch Trials because of their conformation with the devil and their practice of witchcraft. June 10th Bidget Bishop, July nineteenth Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, Sarah Wildes, August 19th George Burroughs, Martha Carrier, John Willard, George Ja cobs, Sr, John Proctor, September 22nd Martha Corey, bloody shame Eastey, Ann Pudeator, Alice Parker Wilmott Redd, Marg art Scott, Samuel Wardwell. Those accuses in Salem, Boston Massachusetts, were believed to be seduced by the devils magic. Those accused, regardless of being blameable or not were brought into court and were pushed through the legal process. The court held all(prenominal) person to the same accountability, guilty until proven innocent. Each person was interpreted to jail, later to be asked series of questions by the magistrate to determine their confrontation with the devil and the many things that the devil influenced. In the government of todays auberge the same process is given to those that are accused of a crime, hence having the evidence go to a grand jury, there deciding whether there ... ... the town of its evil, or the guilty, those that disturb the peace of our society, but in doing so they oblige not protected the innocent. During the Salem witch trials there were trey things that were vital during the trail of finding a witch or wizard, confession, proof of two eye witnesses to acts of witches, and spectral evidence. The process in which people are out on trial today are based upon tailfin pieces of evidence faulty eye witness of identification, false confessions, jail home plate informant testimony, perjury, prosecutorial misconduct. The Salem Witch trials had faith in this system believe all it took to find the guilty was were solely these pieces of evidence. Society and the citizens of today have the same trust in the judicial system today that it leave behind protect. The system of the United States, aims to protect the innocent and lock up the guilty,