... age 18. Of that number, an estimated 2,500 juveniles were arrested for murder and 121,000 for other violent crimes" (266). In 1993, 10 year old, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables kidnapped and brutally murdered two year old James Bulger in Liverpool. They took the boy to railroad tracks where they beat and sexually assaulted him. Thompson and Venables were ... ...

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... electric chair and soon other states adapted this method. In 1924 in an effort to make executions more humane Nevada introduced yet another method of execution; the gas chamber. Gee Jon was the first to be executed utilizing this method. At first the state tried pumping cyanide gas into his cell while he was sleeping but this obliviously failed and so ... ...

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