concern for how the court would look all look after having wrongly executed people.
Explanation:
Judge Danforth began to worry about the court's image. He feared that the sovereignty of the court would be threatened by the image that the court executed people wrongly.
For this reason, it was decided that spectral evidence was no longer authorized as a way of accusing someone of witchcraft, most of the remaining prisoners were not found guilty and were released because of a lack of real evidence. And even those who were found guilty were pardoned by the governor. And so it ended. The hysteria over the Salem witches had finally come to an end.
