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Peine Forte et Dure: Why Giles Corey Chose the Stones
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Giles Corey was eighty years old, fully aware of how the Salem witch trial court worked, and he chose to die under stones rather than play by its rules. This chapter of the 1692 trials reveals the one loophole a dying man found in a system designed to leave no way out.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
An eighty-year-old farmer lay down in a Salem field in September of sixteen ninety-two and let them pile stones onto his chest. He never entered a plea.
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