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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]
Jan 30, 2021 · 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
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Oct 10, 1995 · Sad story about cycles of sexual violence in the Bosket family, combined with the view that robbery and murder are somehow justified, along with an obsession for "respect," leading to extreme violence in the early life of Willie James Bosket, Jr. Willie is now at the Five Points Correctional Facility, still in solitary confinement although he has committed no violations since 1994.
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- Fox Butterfield
Mar 16, 2018 · Carey had recently vetoed a bill reinstating the death penalty – an extremely politically unpopular move. And right in the middle of all that, came the Willie Bosket case. Willie was tried in family court — remember he was 15 — and the most he could face was 5 years, for two execution style murders.
Willie Bosket is considered by many to be New York's most dangerous inmate. His life is a constant rage, and Willie is kept in near-solitary confinement within three cells, incarcerated for a term of five years for a casual double murder on the New York City Subway at age 15. But he is serving essentially the rest of his life in prison, for a ...
A timely reissue of Fox Butterfield’s masterpiece, All God’s Children, a searing examination of the caustic cumulative effect of racism and violence over 5 generations of black Americans. Willie Bosket is a brilliant, violent man who began his criminal career at age five; his slaying of two subway riders at fifteen led to the passage of the ...
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Mar 19, 2018 · Forty years ago today in New York City, a 15-year-old boy shot and killed a stranger on the subway. Over the next two weeks, Willie Bosket went on a crime spree. He murdered a second man, shot ...
