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How many people that used witchcraft were put to death at Salem?
Tituba - Reverend Parris' West Indian slave who entertained the girls in Parris' kitchen with stories of her native Caribbean. Tituba and the girls 'in the kitchen are generally credited with having started the hysteria. Tituba was among the first accused of witchcraft. She confessed and was imprisoned. Reverend Parris - minister of Salem Village. Tituba was his slave, and it was in his kitchen where the girls gathered. William Good - husband of Sarah. He testifies against her describing her as "an enemy to all that is good". She denounces him as a wizard. Dorcas Good - four year old daughter of Sarah. She also testifies against her mother claiming that her mother has three "familiars" - two yellow birds and one black. Sarah Osborne - along with Sarah Good and Tituba the first to be accused of witchcraft. During her trail, Sarah Good accuses Osborne of being a witch. Old and infirm to begin with, Osborne dies while imprisoned. Giles Corey - accused of witchcraft, he was pressed to death while refusing to enter a plea. By refusing to enter a plea he preserved his estate for his sons Judge Hathorne - one of the presiding judges of the witchcraft trials and an ancestor of Salem's famous author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Sarah Good was the daughter of a wealthy Wenham innkeeper, but her life had been a long downhill slide since her father's suicide from drowning. Her mother had quickly remarried in order to block the children's inheritance rights. Sarah married a landless man who hired himself out as a laborer. But even with a chronic labor shortage in the colony, individuals hesitated hiring her husband because that would mean taking Sarah into the household, and she was considered shrewish, idle, and slovenly. 

With matted grey hair and a leathered, lined face, Sarah Good looked seventy years old even though she was still of child bearing age. (In fact she was pregnant at the time of her arrest.) With her clay pipe, Sarah Good even looked the part of a witch. She didn't attend church, and recently she had been begging door-to-door and making a general nuisance of herself. 

Along with Tituba and Sarah Osburne, Sarah Good was among the first three women named as witches. All three were arrested on February 29th, 1692. A strong woman, Sarah nearly overpowered the sheriff who came to arrest her. During the initial questioning of the three women, Good accused Sarah Osburne of being a witch, and Tituba confessed to witchcraft. Tituba was released while Good and Osburne were sent to jail. Osburne, who was already ill, died in prison. Good's newborn child also died in prison. Good was joined in prison by her four year old daughter, Dorcas - even though Dorcas had testified against her mother. Dorcas was to remain mentally impaired for the rest of her life as a result of her imprisonment. Even Sarah Good's husband testified against her. 

On June 29th, along with five other women, Sarah Good was tried and convicted of witchcraft. She was hanged on Gallows hill on July l9th. Sarah Good remained defiant to the end. When Reverend Noyes urged her to confess and repent on the scaffold, she replied "I am no more witch than you are a wizard. If you take my life away, God will give you blood to drink." Years later when Reverend Noyes died of a hemorrhage in the mouth - in fact drinking his own blood - many in Salem remembered Sarah Good's curse. In fact Nathaniel Hawthorne, descendent of the hanging Judge Hathorne of the witch trials, borrowed this incident for the death of Judge Pyncheon in his famous novel, The House of the Seven Gables.
What rights does a rights does an accused person NOT have?
He or she does not have the right to ask for a specific lawyer. If you cannot afford one you get what they give you, and if you deem the counsel you were given "incompetent" you can appeal your case if you were not acquitted. this is just one of the many rights that they don't have, but there are a lot of rights that can be waved.Added:An accused is guaranteed ONLY those rights which are enumerated.Anything else, regardless of WHATEVER it may be, is not guaranteed.Short answer: If it is not enumerated in the Constitution, Statute, or by Court decision, then, ergo, it is not "guaranteed."
How might the events in the 1692 witch-hunts be compared to those of the McCarthy era in the 1950s?
the McCarthy era was the same as the 1392 witch hunt because their was lots of blaming to do and alot of people were accused of doing witchy things and they didnt have evidence to back up their reasonings.
Why were there no major witchcraft scares in the Chesapeake Colonies?
The Chesapeake Colonies, including Virginia and Maryland, did not experience major witchcraft scares like those in New England due to several factors. Firstly, the Chesapeake had a more secular and commercial focus compared to the religious fervor of New England, leading to less emphasis on witchcraft accusations. Additionally, the Chesapeake had a more diverse population with a higher proportion of men, which may have contributed to fewer witchcraft accusations as women were typically the primary targets. Lastly, the legal systems in the Chesapeake were less conducive to witchcraft trials, with fewer cases reaching the courts compared to New England.
At its heart the Scopes Trial was a clash between .?
. . . those who interpreted The Bible literally as "The Historical Truth," and those who believed in the demonstrated "Scientific Method" of evolution.
