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1876: Jesse Pomeroy’s sentence commuted
ExecutedToday.com ^ | August 31, 2013 | Meaghan Good

Posted on 08/31/2023 9:52:10 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat

On this date in 1876, serial killer Jesse Pomeroy was reprieved by a 5-3 vote of the Governor’s Council of Massachusetts. Rather than hanging him, they elected to bury him alive instead.

With a “mere” two deaths to his name, at first glance Jesse Pomeroy may not seem like much of a serial killer. In fact, according to some definitions that require a higher body count, he wasn’t a serial killer at all. But give the kid some credit: he was only fourteen years old when he was caught. What’s more, his two murders were committed in a most brutal, sadistic manner.

Jesse was born in Massachusetts in 1860, the son of a violent and abusive father and a doting mother. He’d always been considered a “difficult” child and had tortured the family pets, but his known criminal career didn’t begin until he was twelve years old.

Over the course of nine months, he lured eight young boys between five and eight years old to remote areas and attacked them, beating them badly with a stick, a belt or his hands. In his later attacks he took to biting, and started using a knife as well. He tried to stick a needle into one child’s eyes, another boy, age six, was stabbed between the shoulders and had his penis nearly half cut off. Eventually Jesse would let his victims go, leaving them physically and mentally scarred for life.....

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1 posted on 08/31/2023 9:52:10 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

In this day and age he would be pardoned.................


2 posted on 08/31/2023 9:55:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: CheshireTheCat

“There something wrong wid dat boy.”

What a sick puppy.


3 posted on 08/31/2023 10:04:41 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

Obvious election denier.


4 posted on 08/31/2023 10:15:41 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Seems like that judge was a Soros type, way ahead of his time


5 posted on 08/31/2023 11:11:38 AM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Wish I had not read the entire thing. Demon-possessed,


6 posted on 08/31/2023 11:16:26 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Red Badger

Yep!


7 posted on 08/31/2023 2:11:32 PM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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