Kansas Charley: The Story of a Nineteenth-Century Boy Murderer Hardcover - 2003
by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Most Americans regard "kids who kill" as a problem unique to our era. But in historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg's important new work, Kansas Charley, she reminds us that it is, tragically, a long-standing dilemma.
Through the moving tale of Charles Miller, Brumberg takes us into a world of poverty, tragedy, and abuse, of people and places that shaped Miller's behavior, his crime, and his punishment. Orphaned at the age of six, Charles Miller failed to find a safe home, and, at the age of fourteen, was riding the rails under the self-styled moniker "Kansas Charley." Then, on a September evening in 1890, when he was only fifteen, Miller shot and killed two other young men in a boxcar headed for Wyoming. Guilt ridden, Miller gave himself up. His trial lasted just three days, ending in a death sentence that resulted in his controversial 1892 hanging. Some Americans thought the boy's execution was barbaric while others hailed it as an act of justice. Brumberg tells Miller's story with clarity and compassion, suggesting that then, as now, the decision to execute was politically motivated.
Kansas Charley brings vividly to life a thought-provoking chapter in the history of American juvenile justice. It also sheds light on our contemporary predicament, encouraging us to think about what it means for the United States to continue to uphold the juvenile death penalty in the twenty-first century.
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On the NIGHT before he died, Charley Miller knew that he could count on Sheriff Kelley to bring him as many fresh doughnuts as he wanted.
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- Title Kansas Charley: The Story of a Nineteenth-Century Boy Murderer
- Author Joan Jacobs Brumberg
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking Books, New York
- Date September 25, 2003
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780670032280 / 067003228X
- Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.99 in (21.59 x 14.73 x 2.51 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003043282
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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