The Salem Witch Trials are most famous for its hangings. By the end of the trials, nineteen men and women were carted off to Gallows Hill and were executed by hanging. However, one man named Giles Corey was stripped down naked, loaded with heavy rocks and pressed to death because he refused to stand for trial. This was a new kind of punishment, that had never been seen before in Massachusetts. Also, at least four of the Salem witches died in the prisons because of very little food and poor conditions (The Salem Witch Trials of 1692)