November 29, 1859 - Jesse Pomeroy
His crimes began when he was barely into adolescence, making the scale of his violence — directed entirely at younger, smaller children — particularly unsettling to the Boston communities where it unfolded. The legal record that followed set a grim precedent: convicted of first-degree murder at fourteen, he became the youngest person in Massachusetts history to carry that distinction. The case forced courts and the public alike to confront questions about juvenile culpability that had few precedents to draw on.
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Jesse Harding Pomeroy (; November 29, 1859 – September 29, 1932) was an American man who, as a juvenile, tortured and mutilated dozens of young boys in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and murdered at least two. He was found guilty by a jury trial held in the Supreme Judicial Court of Suffolk County in December 1874, and is the youngest person in the history of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to be convicted of murder in the first degree.
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