SPRINGFIELD — Twenty-year-old Nickolas Lacrosse stabbed his ex-girlfriend, standout high school student Kathryn Mauke, 32 times at her home in 2015. He was convicted by a jury in 2018 and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
But after a landmark decision by the state’s Supreme Judicial Court, Lacrosse and other convicted murderers who fell between the ages of 18 and 20 at the time of their crimes will be entitled to the possibility of parole.
