Chosen One of course, does not know her history. The Witch trials were in the 1690s and they represented far less burning at the stake than what transpired in old England. What people may not know is that witchraft, in the 17th century, was a crime against society. There were no witch lobbies arguing against the penal code of the day. Anyone reprobate enough to embrace witchcraft knew what they were in for, and they knew they deserved it.
Give me a break. Here's the Catch 22 of the witch trials--once accused, you could either confess or not. If you confessed, it meant that you were no longer under the devil's power. You'd be sent to jail and your property seized, but you wouldn't be hanged. If you didn't confess (because you were, say, innocent), you'd be tried, convicted on the basis of "spectral evidence" (your hysterical teenage accuser telling everyone that she could see demons floating around you), your property seized and then you'd be hanged. If you didn't plead one way or the other (as in the case of Giles Corey) you'd be pressed to death (a door laid on you and piled with rocks until you suffocated). But they could't seize your property.
For the record, even the people of Salem realized that they'd hanged innocent people once the hysteria died down. They tried to spin it that they'd been doing God's work even if a few eggs had gotten broken, but they knew they'd been had.