Which detail from the text shows how Elizabeth Johnson Jr.’s life was spared during the Salem witch trials?

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B. “By the time the pandemonium reached Johnson’s town, accused women had learned to plead guilty in the hope that they would be spared execution” (Paragraph 2)
B. “By the time the pandemonium reached Johnson’s town, accused women had learned to plead guilty in the hope that they would be spared execution” (Paragraph 2)

D. “Only a last-minute stay from the governor kept her from hanging.” (Paragraph 2)
D. “Only a last-minute stay from the governor kept her from hanging.” (Paragraph 2)

C. “it was usually the people who claimed innocence who were killed in Salem.” (Paragraph 2)
C. “it was usually the people who claimed innocence who were killed in Salem.” (Paragraph 2)

A. “Elizabeth Johnson Jr. was a single 22-year-old resident of Andover, Mass., in 1692 when the Salem witch trials started.” (Paragraph 2)

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The detail that shows how Elizabeth Johnson Jr.’s life was spared during the Salem witch trials is:

D. “Only a last-minute stay from the governor kept her from hanging.” (Paragraph 2)