Thousands of people convicted of witchcraft, largely women, could be pardoned posthumously -after death- in Scotland if a new bill becomes law.Scotland killed 5 x more peopleBetween 1563 and 1736, the ...

Thousands of people were convicted of practicing witchcraft in Scotland in a hunt that spanned nearly two centuries — and the majority of those sentenced to death and executed were women.

LONDON (AP) — A Scottish lawmaker on Thursday launched a bid to posthumously pardon thousands of people, mostly women, who were convicted of witchcraft centuries ago. Natalie Don, of the ...

by giving a legal pardon to those convicted of witchcraft in Scotland.

The failure to serve posthumous justice to the thousands of people — mainly women — persecuted as witches in post-Reformation Scotland “prolongs misogyny,” a Scottish lawmaker launching a bid to grant ...

This development marks a significant step in the efforts by Witches of Scotland to win justice, legal pardon, apology, and national monument for thousands of people mostly women who were convicted ...

Calls for legal pardons for so-called witches or necromancers have gathered pace in Scotland, where the country’s most senior politician, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, issued a formal apology ...