A Massachusetts man who admitted to slitting his mother’s throat out of fear for his sister’s safety was granted parole after 22 years.
On Sept. 24, 2003, Alexis Molina pleaded guilty in Bristol Superior Court to second-degree murder. He was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. He also pleaded guilty to armed robbery with a knife, larceny of a motor vehicle and larceny.
In 2002, Molina, 22, moved out of his mother’s house but went back to get his clothes. However, his mother, Catherine Molina Velazquez, began telling him that she was going to tell his sister’s parole officer to arrest her for parole violations. Molina said his sister had attempted suicide the last time she was incarcerated, “so this upset him,” the parole board stated. When his mother began looking for the parole officer’s number, he broke down…