'Decades of pain': Now both killers of elderly Middleboro man granted parole. Why?
'Decades of pain': Now both killers of elderly Middleboro man granted parole. Why? Amelia Stern The Enterprise Published May 21, 2025 A man found guilty of the 1986 murder and armed robbery of an elderly Middleboro man was granted parole after serving 38 years in prison, according to a Massachusetts Parole Board decision . Michael Eagles, now 59, was originally sentenced to life without the possibility of parole after he beat and strangled 79-year-old Lewis Jennings to death inside the victim’s Middleboro trailer. The highest court in Massachusetts ruled in January 2024 that mandatory life-sentencing without the possibility of parole for defendants 18 to 20 years of age at the time the crime was committed is unconstitutional, according to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's Commonwealth vs. Mattis decision. As a result of the decision, Eagles, who was 20 years old when he committed the crime, had his sentence commuted to allow parole eligibili...