Campaigners push for full legal pardon after Nicola Sturgeon’s International Women’s Day apology
Calls for a legal pardon for the thousands of people persecuted as witches in post-Reformation Scotland are growing, as the drive for posthumous justice gains international notice.
Last week, Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, issued a formal apology on International Women’s Day to the 4,000 people, mainly women, who were tortured and often horribly executed under the Witchcraft Act 1563.
