query: manner_of_death mary parker 
supports: Hanging is the suspension of a person by a noose or ligature around the neck. The "Oxford English Dictionary" states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck", though it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain "hanging". Hanging has been a common method of capital punishment since medieval times, and is the official execution method in numerous countries and regions. The first account of execution by hanging was in Homer's "Odyssey". In this specialised meaning of the common word "hang", the past and past participle is "hanged" instead of "hung". The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, fourteen of them women, and all but one by hanging. Five others (including two infant children) died in prison.  Mary ( née Ayer ) Parker of Andover , Mass. , the daughter of John Ayer , was executed September 22 , 1692 , with several others , for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials . She was 55 years old and a widow . Mary 's husband , Nathan , died in 1685 . Nicholas Noyes officiated . Her daughter , Sarah Parker , was also accused . Mary Parker was an 8th great - grandmother of U.S. President George W. Bush , who is a descendant or relative of up to 217 of the trials ' participants .
candidates: capital punishment hanging
answer: capital punishment