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Violent youth.
Conservatives like to blame our permissive society, violent movies and television shows, and suggestive rock lyrics. The liberals believe that additional educational and social services programs would stop these things from happening in the first place.
No one today would suggest that killer kids are simply homicidal little maniacs whose very existence the rest of us might be better off without.
Things were very different in 1934, when a scruffy bunch of kids known as the "Little Dillinger Gang" terrorized the Niagara Frontier. The gang's leaders, Bruno "Brownie" Salek, 19, and Stanley Pluzdrak, 17, went on to a bizarre sort of fame. Pluzdrak remains the youngest person ever executed by the state of New York, while Salek was the first active member of the Boy Scouts ever to die in the electric chair.
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