Innocent Or Guilty Research Paper

When taking this class I was not sure what I was going to get myself into. I love learning about things that lead up to present day history. When we were told in class that we had to write a critical thinking paper on a slice of life topic I was not sure what topic I wanted to write about. The topic I choose to write about is the slice of life “Innocent or Guilty? A Seventeenth Century Witch Trial” (Experience Humanities). Trying to be proven innocent or guilty in other hands is a big leap of faith. When reading about a lady named Suzanne Gaudry it surprised me on how harsh people actually were during this time frame in the seventeenth century. During this time “Suzanne Gaurdy, an illiterate old woman, was accused of witchcraft, including such crimes as renouncing “God, Lent and baptism,” worshiping the …show more content…
When I think she has received affair trail is that she did go to court and she did tell them that she had nothing to do with what they were trying to charge her with and that someone was making her do it. I also believe that she did not receive a fair trial is that they killed her anyways instead of hearing her out and maybe putting her in jail instead of killing her. When I read on how they did things back in the seventeenth century and probably even earlier in the court systems that they had then and I look at our court systems now they are similar in a way. During the seventeenth century they killed people the way they wanted to and in today’s world we had the electric chair. Now in today’s world you do not hear much on the court system using the electric chair people just do lift in prison. When people were or are getting charged with something no matter if they were in the seventeenth century or in the 21st century they still went to court to get