How To Be Accused In The Crucible

I believe that a person is innocent until they are proven guilty. If you are accused and face consequences right away and are not proven guilty it is unfair. It would be fair to go to court and have the accusation be backed up with proof or else it would be considered a slanderous statement. Accusing someone without any proof will cause a lawsuit that may last months or maybe even up to years. In my mind, they will always be innocent until proven guilty and they should not have any trouble until they are found guilty. In The Crucible, many women were accused of being witches and doing witchcraft with no proof at all. Many of these statements were usually slander. Convincing people they were innocent was no option because if you denied it you would be executed. There was no way you can show proof of not being a witch because they would not go to court and have a trial. Most of the women were usually innocent. They did not have any rights to speak up so they were usually always convicted of being guilty. If you are proven guilty I believe that you should face any consequences that are going to be …show more content…
When women were found guilty for being a witch which was very rare, they were executed. Most of them were “guilty” with no proof at all and they were still executed just like the ones that were actually witches. This caused many people to accuse many different people just to get them killed. The colonists were able to kill anybody just by accusing them. Many people mostly women, died to just being accused of witchcraft. Families were torn apart just because of an accusation because the mother would get killed. If evidence was not ignored during court many people would have avoided death just because of an accusation. I believe having good evidence to prove someone guilty is the right thing to do instead of just executing and ending someones life over an accusations anybody can make