In one small victory against the opioid crisis, a man who gave a lethal amount of fentanyl to a woman was charged with manslaughter, pleaded guilty, and has been sentenced to prison.

This is how you give notice to those bringing deadly drugs into our communities that Massachusetts means business, and we’re going to do what it takes to end their livelihood.

All of this means nothing, however, if our permissive judicial system lets him out before his time.

As the Herald reported, William McNeill of Dorchester pleaded guilty on Tuesday in Plymouth court to manslaughter and unlawful distribution of a class A substance, fentanyl, in 2019. He had even warned the victim, Felishia Caraway-Mudd, that the drugs could kill her.

We can’t expect all such dealers to plead guilty, but the work of bot

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