How is giving her a Christian burial in anyway compassionate? Sounds like so much spin to me. Progress? This takes us back to the middle ages! Personally, I'd have been happier beneath the holly tree.

We have a witch near us, buried, as legend has it, upside down beneath a huge boulder to stop her crawling out her grave. See Here. Maybe this will create a precedence for exhuming all known witches and giving them decent burials.