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  1. Willie Bosket. William James Bosket Jr. (born December 9, 1962) is an American convicted murderer, whose numerous crimes committed while he was still a minor led to a change in New York state law, so that juveniles as young as 13 could be tried as an adult for murder and would face the same penalties. [2]

  2. Dec 17, 1995 · Learn how Willie James Bosket, a notorious criminal, inherited a legacy of violence from his family and American history.

  3. Jan 24, 1996 · All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence By Fox Butterfield Knopf, 389 pages, $27.50 Willie Bosket has been called the most violent criminal in New York st…

  4. Mr. Bosket was sentenced to 25 years to life for stabbing a guard in the visitors’ room in 1988, along with other offenses, leading prison authorities to make him virtually the most restricted inmate in the state. Now Mr. Bosket, who has gone 14 years without a disciplinary violation, does mainly three things: read, sleep and think.

    • 12/09/1962
    • BOSKET, WILLIE
    • 84A6391
    • MALE
  5. www.theatlantic.com › magazine › archiveFrom Out of the South

    Willie Bosket, who had murdered two men and claimed to have committed 2,000 crimes by age fifteen, wrote that in a letter to the deputy superintendent of Shawangunk. At Bosket's trial the ...

  6. Jan 8, 2008 · Butterfield traces the Bosket family back to their days as South Carolina slaves and documents how Willie is the culmination of generations of neglect, cruelty, discrimination and brutality directed at black Americans.

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  8. Dec 29, 2014 · Willie Bosket at the Ulster County Courthouse in Kingston, New York in April 1989. Bosket was sentenced to 25 years to life for stabbing a prison guard in April 1988. Jim McKnight/Associated Press. Before Carey's in-flight change of heart, things seemed to be going in a much different direction.

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