IntroductionFrom 1692 to 1693 in Boston, Massachusetts, many people were accused of practicing witchcraft. That year, nearly 200 people were accused of practicing "devil magic" and were put on trial with the possibility of a final verdict of life or death. This dark magic was usually associated with random explosions, screams, and certain positions alien to those around them, as well as other things that people found out of the norm and unnatural. During this time people led a puritanical lifestyle, the devil had become very real and this conservative and rigid lifestyle gave way to a strong belief in the devil. In total, nineteen people were hanged during the Salem witch trials because of their conformation with the devil. devil and their practice of witchcraft. June 10; Bidget Bishop, July 19; Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, Sarah Wildes, August 19; George Burroughs, Martha Carrier, John Willard, George Jacobs, Sr, John Proctor, September 22; Martha Corey, Mary Eastey, Ann Pudeator, Alice Parker Wilmott Redd, Margaret Scott, Samuel Wardwell. The defendants in Salem, Boston, Massachusetts, were believed to have been seduced by the magic of the devil. The accused, whether guilty or not, were brought to justice and pushed to follow the legal process. The court held each person equally responsible, guilty until proven guilty. Each person was taken to jail and then the magistrate asked them a series of questions to determine their encounter with the devil and the many things the devil had influenced. In today's society government, the same process is applied to those who are accused of a crime, and then the evidence is turned over to a grand jury, who decides whether there is... in the middle of the paper... the city of its evil, or the culprits, those who disturb the peace of our society, but in doing so they have not protected the innocent. During the Salem witch trials, three elements were essential to finding a witch or wizard: "confessions, the testimony of two eyewitnesses to the witches' acts, and spectral evidence." The process by which people are tried today relies on five elements of evidence: defective eyewitness, false confession, testimony from a prison informant, perjury, prosecutorial misconduct. The Salem witch trials had faith in this system, believing that it was enough to find the guilty using this evidence alone. Today's society and citizens have the same confidence in the justice system that it will protect. The United States' system aims to protect the innocent and lock up the guilty.,