333 years ago, Bridget Bishop became the first person executed during the Salem witch trials, marking a tragic escalation in the crisis that would claim 20 lives. On Friday, June 10, 1692, Sheriff George Corwin carried out the execution warrant issued eight days earlier. The official record states that Bridget Bishop was “hanged by the neck until she was dead” at the designated place of execution in Salem. The execution warrant, dated Wednesday, June 8, 1692, had ordered Sheriff George Corwin to