Fair. Man who killed a friend as a child is still missing “empathy”

A man from Massachusetts, who was imprisoned for more than three decades and recently disciplined for threatening staff in the prison, hoped for a second chance outside of the prison walls.

Jesus Sierra and Santa Montanez had been together for less than a year when Sierra moved to an apartment in Dorchester with Montanez and her 11-year-old daughter.

On March 7, 1992, Sierra, who was 26 years old, stabbed his 34-year-old girlfriend several times and strangled her to death. About a year later, he was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of probation and sentenced to the second degree for murder.

On the night of the murder, Sierra came home from work around midnight. Around 12.40 p.m. Montanez, who lived in the apartment below you, heard screamed in her sister's apartment. Montanez 'other sister who lived on the first floor joined her sister and her husband to Montanez.

The bedroom door in her sister's apartment was closed, according to the probation authority. She called out to ask if everything was fine. Sierra replied that everything was okay and that they all went back to their own apartments.

Soon afterwards Sierra left the house.

The sisters returned to the apartment on the third floor to see in Montanez. They found that their sister had been strangled with an extension cable and was stabbed several times with a small knife, the probation board said. She was taken to the Boston City Hospital, where she was declared dead.

The cause of death was found as suffocation and strangulation from a ligature. Montanez '11-year-old daughter slept when Sierra murdered her mother, the probation helper wrote.

The next day, Sierra turned the police and admitted the crime.

He spent 33 years in prison and received 91 disciplinary reports. Five of these reports have been in 2022 since his last hearing of the probation committee. This included a serious attack and threatened employees, which led to his return to a maximum security prison.

Sierra took part in the detention in the “significant” programming, the probation committee said in a decision in May. “However, his continuous use of violence reflects its current inability to solve the matters pro-social,” wrote the board.

“Mr. Sierra's statement about the hearing reflected a lack of empathy and remorse,” wrote the probation authority. “The board encourages Mr. Sierra to continue to invest his time with programming, which deals with violence and remain free to report disciplinary report.”

He has exposed himself five times in front of the probation helper since 2007. He last rose in front of them on February 6th.

During the hearing in February, the probation committee heard statements by Montanez 'brother and the deputy district prosecutor of Suffolk County, Montez Haywood, both of whom are against probation.

It was a unanimous decision by the probation committee that Sierra “did not demonstrate any rehabilitation that would make his release compatible with the well -being of society”.

He will have another chance for a hearing from the probation committee in three years.