Massachusetts H1869 amends the General Laws to impose severe penalties for soliciting a juvenile under eighteen to commit murder or armed assault.
Massachusetts H1869 amends Chapter 274 of the General Laws by adding a new section that imposes severe penalties on individuals who solicit, entice, counsel, provoke, threaten, pay, agree to pay, or offer to pay a juvenile under eighteen to commit murder or an armed assault on another person. The bill defines "armed assault on another person" and "murder" and specifies that those convicted under this new provision shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life or for any term of years, but not less than twenty years.
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