The Baltimore Sun would NOT let Massachusetts off the hook for the way they treated this poor boy! This article is brilliant. ("A boy thirteen years of age, out of pity, permitted to go to a prison, with the prospect of remaining there some 75 or 80 years. Such tender mercy as this is what the wolf gives to the lamb." I'm sorry, that's HILARIOUS - and also so true!) Nevertheless, at least he wasn't executed. He was just subjected to a lifetime of hard labor. Now imagine if he were rich.