ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WBFF) — The sole sponsor of a state resolution aimed at exonerating nearly a dozen colonial Marylanders accused of witchcraft or executed by capital punishment testified to her colleagues that her bill would correct an injustice that has persisted for over 350 years.
Del. Heather Bagnall, D-Anne Arundel County, led testimony for 18 minutes, or nearly 42%, of Monday’s public hearing in the House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee about her witchcraft exoneration resolution.
One could argue that the Witchcraft Act of 1604 was the first moral panic law and one of the earliest violence against women laws on our books as a British colony,” Del. Bagnall told the committee…