Lastly, Danforth is responsible for the hanging of innocent people as witches. He was the Judge in the Salem witch trials. Throughout the trial he would believe that the accused persons spirits was choking the girls, with no proof of it at all. They could make a garg ling noise and that would prove that the defendant was a witch. He didn't use common sense at all in the trial. Also when someone testified truth he would not believe them. Mary Warren had nothing to gain by admitting that she was faking the attacks, along with the other girls. She was in trouble either way for lying under oath. Danforth wouldn't call off the other cases or stop people from being hung even with Solid evidence that they were innocent.