Massachusetts Parole Board has released 39 ... who were initially sentenced to life without parole

[DefiantMassRINO]

This is what happens when you have a single party, liberal Dem Governor, Legislature, and Juduciary.

It hasn't been this bad since the Mike Dukakis/Willie Horton years (circa 1988).

https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/12/26/massachusetts-parole-board-has-released-39-murder-convicts-who-were-initially-sentenced-to-life-without-parole/
Massachusetts Parole Board has released 39 murder convicts who were initially sentenced to life without parole
The ’emerging adults’ became eligible for parole after a state court ruling

By Rick Sobey | rick.sobey@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald
PUBLISHED: December 26, 2025 at 5:22 AM EST

The state’s parole board has released 39 “emerging adult” murder convicts who were originally sentenced to life without parole, but who later became eligible after a court ruling.

The Massachusetts Parole Board has issued 51 parole decisions since the Supreme Judicial Court last year ruled that emerging adults who were 18 to 20 at the time of the offense cannot be sentenced to life without parole. ...

...“Using the possibility of parole, and the excuse that the murderer was a young adult as a reason for granting parole, turns the parole option into an eventual get-out-of-jail-free card,” Plymouth DA Timothy Cruz said in a statement.

“The blanket granting of parole without any significant recognition or consideration of the suffering of the victims is at best ill-considered,” the DA added. “At worst, it disregards the part of the parole statute that not only requires for a prisoner not to violate the law, but in addition, that release should not be granted if ‘not compatible with the welfare of society.’ ”

Last January, the Supreme Judicial Court’s decision in Commonwealth v. Mattis made it unconstitutional to sentence emerging adults to life without parole — making more than 200 people eligible for parole consideration. ...