Tom Mathews’s Reviews > Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials > Status Update

Hands and feet tied, one by one they were turned off the ladder, and one by one they died with the usual painful messy contortions. Then there was nothing left but to let the workmen bury the dead, with the corpses hanging there long enough to warn and deter other evildoers.