A Massachusetts man who served more than 50 years in prison after a murder conviction was granted parole last month.

Neal Parham, 71, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole in 1975 after a botched robbery of a taxicab driver and a passenger in Jamaica Plain led to the passenger’s fatal stabbing.

He was also found guilty of armed robbery and assault to rob and received a seven to 10-year sentence to run concurrently with his life sentence.

In January, the Suffolk County Superior Court agreed with Parham’s petition to reduce his verdict from first-degree murder to second-degree murder, which made him eligible for parole.

On May 22, he appeared for his first parole board hearing, and the board decided on Oct. 29 to grant him parole two weeks from its dec

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