Posted on 11/12/2026 12:48:33 PM PST by lowbridge
When Janette Jackson of Dorchester saw her son’s convicted killer at her neighborhood grocery store, it stunned her.
Then it snapped her into action.
“When I saw him at Stop & Shop, I'm like, 'Oh my God, that's him,'” Jackson said. “And he just dashed right out when I saw him.”
Jackson, 76, says the man at the grocery store was John Evans, the person convicted of killing her son, Lyle “Danny” Jackson in 1996. This week is the 30th anniversary of Evans’ life without parole sentencing.
In 2024, a judge released him to home confinement. He’s been out of prison now for more than two years.
Although Jackson knew about the court-ordered release, when she saw Evans in her neighborhood, it made her angry.
“The judge said, ‘You will spend the rest of your natural life in jail, in prison,’” Jackson recalled. “And he's out -- living a life that my son didn't get to live.”
The judge who agreed to stay the life sentence said she did it because Evans’ attorney had sufficiently argued new evidence may warrant a new trial and Evans’ doctor had sufficiently argued his failing heart and bone marrow disease required medical treatment only available outside of prison. If he didn’t get that treatment, the doctor said, he could be dead in six months.
The judge ordered home confinement with a family member, allowing Evans to leave that home only for visits with his doctor or his lawyer. Grocery store visits are not listed as permissible; Evans is not on a monitoring device.
Although Jackson attended a court hearing to oppose the defense attorney’s stay motion, Judge Jackie Cowin said she could not be heard.
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Should have been given the chair 30 days after conviction.
I may never understand the gall of some judges, that they release convicted murderers back into the world.
Judge “...she did it because”...Compassion for the guilty murderer is treason to the DEAD victim and his family and friends.
So? The man he killed has been dead a lot longer than that.
Disgusting judge.
This is exactly why the death penalty is necessary.
This judge is an example of today’s law school graduates.
Indoctrinated rather than educated, typical liberal democrat, always, always always on the wring side of every issue.
Their hearts bleed for the very worst human beings yet vote like automatons for “a woman’s right to choose”, a death sentence for the most innocent among us.
Absolutely brain dead.
Does he have to go to the doctor every day? No one has medical care “in prison” - but they can be transported to doctor’s office and then returned, can’t they?
This makes zero sense.
If he’s able to go shopping on his own, he must be in good enough shape to do the above.
Or a day after conviction.
Newscvum commuted all the people on death row in California, over 500, to life without parole. How many of them will be walking around in 20 or 30 years? How many will kill someone else?
It's not gall.
It's deep seated evil, the overwhelming urge to harm and destroy. The craving for the dopamine high of watching someone suffer, and knowing they caused the suffering and they are going to get away with it!
It's the sadistic lust power, for control over the helpless to fight back or resist.
Such people are drawn to positions of authority, their dream jobs range from being a "teacher" just so they can crush a child's spirit, to being a "statesman" so the can destroy multiple countries, to being a "judge" so they can torment the victim and coddle the criminal, to being the distinguished "honorable senator" being the deciding vote for war.
This is so far outside the band of normalcy we usually can't see it behind the friendly smile and soothing words. They giggle every time the get away with it.
Should we catch a glimpse it, it is so disturbing we blank it out of our minds in mental self defense.
On the bright side, the midterms will give us an unprecedented opportunity to observe this in it's full glory with who "we" chose as our 'betters' in free elections devoid of the slightest hint of fraud or manipulation...
Great. They can monitor his vitals and treat his condition while he convalesces in a prison cell.
There is no real Justice in the USA!
Mrs. Jackson should barrow car and wait for the murderer to go out for some milk.
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