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Search results for "Juvenile Killers" ...

  • Our Youngest Killers: Juveniles Serving Life w/o Parole in Massachusetts

    15 years after the Massachusetts Legislature passed one of the harshest juvenile murderer sentencing laws in the country, the New England Center for Investigative Reporting (NECIR) revealed, for the first time, serious disparities in the way juvenile killers have been punished under the law.

    Tags: Massachusetts; New England Center for Investigative Reporting; Juvenile Killers; Murder

    By Maggie Mulvihill; Sarah Farot; Kirsten Berg; Jenna Ebersole; Alex Burris

    New England Center for Investigative Reporting

    2011

  • Our Youngest Killers

    Fifteen years after the Massachusetts Legislature passed one of the harshest juvenile murderer sentencing laws in the country, the New England Center for Investigative Reporting revealed serious disparities in the way juvenile killers have been punished under the law.

    Tags: juvenile killers; murder; disparity

    By Maggie Mulvihill; Sarah Favox; Kirsten Berg; Jenna Ebersole; Alex Burris

    New England Center for Investigative Reporting

    2012

  • Our Youngest Killers: Juveniles Serving Life w/o Parole in Massachusetts

    An investigation into the incarcerations of Massachusetts teens sentenced to life in prison reveals parole reveal inequities in the 1996 law.

    Tags: Parole; Life Sentenve; Juvenile

    By Maggie Mulvihill; Sarah Favox; Kirsten Berg; Jenna Ebersole; Alexandria Berris

    New England Center for Investigative Reporting

    2011

  • Our Youngest Killers: Juveniles Serving Life Without Parole in Massachusetts

    Fifteen years after the Massachusetts Legislature passed one of the harshest juvenile murder sentencing laws in the country, a New England Center for Investigative Reporting (NECIR) investigation revealed, for the first time, serious disparities in the way juvenile killers have been punished under the law. The article investigates 60 juvenile murder cases in Massachusetts.

    Tags: juvenile; crime; massachusetts; court; legal system; sentence; parole

    By Sarah Favot; Kirsten Berg; Jenna Ebersole

    New England Center for Investigative Reporting

    2011

  • Baby-Faced Butchers

    Realtor Michael McMorrow was murdered on May 23, 1997 in Central Park after being stabbed 34 times, disemboweled and thrown into the lake. The two killers were teenagers: a spoiled rich girl, Daphne Abdela and her working class boyfriend Christopher Vasquez.

    Tags: assault; stabbing; violence; juvenile

    By Stella Sands

    Freelance

    2007

  • Teens Who Kill

    The Sun investigates increase in juvenile crime in San Bernardino County. The main findings: teen arrest rate is double the state average, and more and more high-profile murders have been committed by youngsters. "The stories document the impact of family dysfunction, drugs and poverty in turning kids into killers," according to The Sun contest questionnaire.

    Tags: police; law enforcement; juvenile justice; courts; gangs; shootings; youth violence

    By Chris Nguyen

    Sun (San Bernardino, Calif.)

    2002