The Massachusetts Constitution does not forbid the death penalty. Voters made sure of that in 1982. What the state lacks is a statute, and the last one was struck down in 1984.
Prosecutors say he removed the attic door handle so she could not leave. The trafficking charge he faces carries a mandatory five years in state prison, with no parole until it is served.
Following a hunter, spooking deer off a stand or stepping into the line of fire is a crime in Massachusetts, and the hunter can sue for punitive damages. But the law protects only lawful hunting, and a hunter within 500 feet of your house without permission is not hunting lawfully.
In 2021 the board said she kept changing her story and had no insight. In 2026 it still says she has never credibly explained how Eero Helin died, and it paroled her anyway. The difference was the release plan.
Prosecutors say the officer forced a man's foot back through a cell's handcuff port, knee-struck the door on his arm, then wrote that the man had been grabbing, hitting and spitting at him. The false report charge is the one that matters.
A relative walked into the Lakeville police station and asked for a well-being check on a family member with a gun. Officers went with the relative, and the man was shot and killed in a second-floor bedroom. What the district attorney has said, and the legal standard the investigation will apply.
None of these offenses reaches someone who buys a gun illegally, because that person is not in the system. They reach licensed owners who miss a deadline, lend a rifle, discover a theft late, or skip a step to keep a gun they already owned.
The repeal side's argument is not that Massachusetts should have no gun laws. It is that Chapter 135 aims its new crimes at licensed owners who were already following the old ones, and that a court upholding a law is not the same as voters approving it.
In Massachusetts, a healthy tree that falls in a storm is nobody's fault, and the loss goes to your own insurance. A dead tree its owner should have dealt with is different, and the evidence is what the tree looked like before it fell.
The program is free, but the entry ticket is a Mass ID, and the RMV issues those only to people who do not hold a valid driver's license anywhere. Here is who qualifies, how to apply, and what to use if you do not.
