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Juvenile Murderer Newspaper Articles

Attack journalism: New York Post goes after New York Times
Attack journalism: New York Post goes after New York Times in front page stories, accusing its competitor of ignoring pleas of victims in its series on child-age killers; Times stays above the fray.
Did electronic monitoring failures play a role in Larry Neuman’s murder?
Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling spoke a truth this week when he announced that a 16-year-old had been arrested and charged as an adult for murdering West Side community pillar Larry Neuman.
Even teen murderers can change.
For juvenile offenders, that question was partially answered Monday when an appeals court reversed the new sentence given by a lower court to a defendant convicted of committing rape and murder when he was 16. Kids grow up, and the appeals court said the sentencing judge should have considered how much the defendant might have matured in the decade between his crime and resentencing.
How youngest killers differ: peer support
When 16-year-old Evan Ramsey strode into the lobby of his high school in Bethel, Alaska, in 1997 and shot a popular basketball player in the stomach, there were already spectators
A Murderer at 14, Then a Lifer, Now a Man Pondering a Future.
The article discusses the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the case of Miller v. Alabama, which allowed individuals convicted of murder as juveniles to receive new sentencing hearings in some U.S. states. The author focuses on a new sentencing hearing for Adolfo Davis, who was convicted of murder at age 14 and has spent 24 years in prison, in Chicago, Illinois, and victims' rights groups opposition to new sentencing hearings is discussed.
Salamanca killer Edward Kindt breaks parole, taken into custody
Edward Kindt, the man who pleaded guilty 25 years ago to killing a woman along a bike trail in Salamanca, absconded from his supervised parole in Dutchess County and was taken into custody Wednesday morning at his childhood house in the Southern Tier community.
Santa Cruz - Jury selection to start over in Gonzalez case
...Several panels of jurors were brought in last week to find candidates who could fairly judge whether Gonzalez, who at 15 years old killed 8-year-old neighbor Madyson “Maddy” Middleton, continued to pose a public safety threat as he nears his 25th birthday...
Santa Fe: a teenager was killed by another teenager in a soccer game and his family destroyed the hospital.
...a 15 year-old teenager was stabbed to death last Sunday after a fight with another 14 year-old minor over a soccer match they played in a tournament held at the Plaza del Museo, in the city of Tostado, located in the northwest of the province of Santa Fe....
Sentences for young murderers limited by u s supreme court.
The U.S. Supreme Court gave retroactive effect to a 2012 ruling that banned automatic life-without-parole sentences for juvenile murderers, in a decision that may apply to hundreds of inmates. In 2010, the court extended that reasoning to bar life-without-parole sentences for youths convicted of a crime other than murder.
Supreme Court decision on life terms for teenage killers could impact Virginia cases
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down automatic life terms with no chance of parole for teenage killers could result in a series of new parole hearings in Virginia.
Victimized by a murderer and a parole system - Another Voice: Penny Brown was my mother. Unlike her killer, I am serving a life sentence
...And shockingly, because he was a juvenile when he raped and murdered my mother, Kindt was not required to register with the New York State Sex Offender Registry...
Whether to kill those who killed as youths
If the state of Georgia electrocutes Alexander Williams on Thursday, as planned, five people who committed murder when they were 17 will have been put to death this year in the United States. That is more than in any year since 1954, when six teenagers were executed in Florida and Georgia.

Juvenile Murderer Magazine Articles

182 of those sent to death row actually were INNOCENT These are stories of justice gone wrong.
Since 1973, more than 8,700 people in the U.S. have been sentenced to death. More than 1,500 have been executed. These are stories of justice gone wrong.
Does Napoleon Beazley deserve to die?
ON APRIL 19, 1994, THE DAY that seventeen-year-old Napoleon Beazley committed cold-blooded murder, the high school senior came home from track practice, showered, and changed into a fresh pair of […]
KILLERS OUR STREETS.
Woman's Own; 12/25/2023, Issue 433, p38-39, 2p, 3 Color Photographs, 4 Black and White Photographs
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