State medical parole law angers victims kin, prosecutors Follow Us
Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Monday, March 15, 2021
BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts has released 21 convicted first-degree murderers under the state’s three-year-old medical parole law, most of them in the past year during the coronavirus pandemic, angering prosecutors and the families of their victims.
Under state law, people convicted of first-degree murder receive mandatory sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
“I’m not sure the members of the Legislature fully realized that they set up a conflict in the law: A first-degree murderer is not eligible for parole, yet we’re allowing them to be released,” Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey told The Boston Globe. “It’s very hard to go back to a family - some of these cases are 30 years old or older - and tell them the
State medical parole law angers victims kin, prosecutors
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