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MP calls for women hanged for witchcraft to be pardoned [View all]
A campaign to pardon the last three women to be hanged for witchcraft in England has been backed by a Devon MP.
Temperance Lloyd, Susannah Edwards and Mary Trembles, known as the Witches of Bideford, were executed in Exeter on 25 August 1682.
Ben Bradshaw, Labour MP for Exeter, said their deaths were a "stain on our history".
The petition says "pardoning the women would acknowledge their innocence and that of more than 450 others".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-22840560
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