As every high-school student who has read The Crucible knows, witches were executed in Massachusetts as late as 1692.(The Week)(Brief article)

As every high-school student who has read The Crucible knows, witches were executed in Massachusetts as late as 1692. But colonial Massachusetts had politics, law, public opinion, and intellectual inquiry, if not full freedom of thought: social forces that helped turn the tide against witchcraft prosecutions when the frenzy had worn off. What does Saudi Arabia have, and can it save Fawza Falih--an illiterate woman accused of witchcraft for, among other things, causing one of her ...