A man who killed a mother of six children during a masked robbery in Lynn in the middle of the night is being released to ICE after being granted parole on Tuesday.

Oeun Lam, now 52, was convicted of first-degree murder in the first-degree for the death of Cheang Ley Nhor, 41, in 1993. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

However, in 2024, the Supreme Judicial Court decision stated emerging adults between the ages of 18-20 cannot be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in Massachusetts.

The high court ruled that life sentences for defendants within that age group are unconstitutional and amount to “cruel and unusual punishment.”

Due to the decision, Lam, currently in Old Colony Correctional Center, was allowed to go in front of

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