Family members of a Brockton man killed 37 years ago confronted the killer, Robert Morganti, at a parole board hearing on Thursday and demanded he remain locked up for the rest of his life.

“My son doesn’t get a second chance at life,” read a letter from the father of the victim, Anthony LoConte, who was killed in 1988. He said Morganti’s release would be “deeply unjust” and “diminish the gravity of my son’s life and his death.” LoConte died at 24.

The family never expected to be pleading for the convicted killer to remain behind bars. A change in the law last year, however, gives certain convicted murderers serving life sentences a chance at being released from prison.

Morganti, 56, appeared before the state’s parole board on Thursday for his first parole hearing. He was convicted in

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