Why were some men hung for the Salem Witch Trials?

For the most part, the men of Salem Village were involved in blaming, trying, and convicting the young women whose unusual behavior and outlandish accusations were at the heart of the trials. However, men were being accused, sometimes by neighbors who had longstanding resentments against them.

The most horrifying tale of Salem’s male accused is named Giles Corey, who was an eighty-one-year-old refused to admit innocence or guilt when he was accused of witchcraft. Corey didn’t want to forfeit his estate to the government if convicted. Instead, of waiting for him to enter a plea, they decided to press him between two stones until he died. His wife was also executed for witchcraft. Also, a man named John Proctor was hanged in 1692 in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Salem witch trials