• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • HOME
  • NEWS+OPINIONS
    • NEWS TO US
    • COLUMNS
      • APPARENT HORIZON
      • DEAR READER
      • Close
    • LONGFORM FEATURES
    • OPINIONS
    • EDITORIAL
    • Close
  • ARTS+ENTERTAINMENT
    • FILM
    • MUSIC
    • COMEDY
    • PERFORMING ARTS
    • VISUAL ARTS
    • Close
  • DINING+DRINKING
    • EATS
    • SIPS
    • BOSTON BETTER BEER BUREAU
    • Close
  • LIFESTYLE
    • CANNABIS
      • TALKING JOINTS MEMO
      • Close
    • WELLNESS
    • GTFO
    • Close
  • STUFF TO DO
  • TICKETS
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT
    • MASTHEAD
    • ADVERTISE
    • PRIVACY POLICY
    • Close
  • BECOME A MEMBER

Dig Bos

The Dig - Boston's Only Newspaper

murder

SPECIAL FEATURE: THE FIGHT FOR LIFE IN MASSACHUSETTS

Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Posted May 23, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

The Bay State has a fraught history of sentencing people to serve life without parole. Now lawmakers have a chance to end the bad deal Beacon Hill made to trade the death penalty for natural life sentences.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: #mapoli, An Act to Reduce Mass Incarceration, death in slow motion, first-degree murder, harsh sentencing, juvenile lifers, Life Without Parole, LWOP, Massachusetts, murder, other death penalty, other death sentence, parole eligibility, Prison Legal News, punishment, Slattery, victims

KILL WHITEY: A LOOK BACK AT WHY THE GOVERNMENT MAY HAVE WANTED BULGER DEAD MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE

Written by JONATHAN RILEY Posted December 19, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

While Whitey was doing time in Atlanta, a 16-year-old math prodigy named Ted Kaczynski enrolled at Harvard. Soon, he was reluctantly participating in experiments, likely funded by the CIA, that aimed to develop ambitious interrogation techniques.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: acid, acid testing, Boston, Bulger, Carney, Dick Lehr, LSD, MK-Ultra Harvard, murder, Police, Thtowback, Unabomber, Whitey

INTERVIEW: LEAH CARROLL’S NEW BOOK REVISITS ROUGH RHODE ISLAND MEMORIES AND TOUGH PERSONAL TRIALS

Written by M.J. TIDWELL Posted June 28, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Books

Leah Carroll’s book revisits rough Rhode Island memories and tough personal trials

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: Autobiography, books, Brookline Booksmith, Down City, Leah Carroll, mafia, murder, providence, Rhode Island

SILENT KNIGHT: PERPETRATORS OF STATE-SPONSORED GENOCIDE ARE PUSHED FURTHER INWARD IN OPPENHEIMER’S LATEST

Written by JAKE MULLIGAN Posted July 29, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Film

Evil cannot always be comprehended. But it can be filmed, and it can be seen.

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: communists, genocide, Indonesia, Joshua Oppenheimer, murder, The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence

HOW ABOUT SHANEKA THOMPSON?

Written by EMILY HOPKINS Posted January 2, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical, NEWS+OPINIONS

If she’s referenced at all, Thompson is often referred to briefly and without explanation—even though the murder of those cops in Brooklyn started at her place.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Baltimore, Brooklyn, domestic violence, Emily Hopkins, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, Maryland, murder, NYPD, Owings Mills, police brutality, Shaneka Thompson, shooting

Primary Sidebar

FEATURED EVENT

Most Popular

  • We Turned the North End Restaurant Lawsuit Against Mayor Wu Into a Musical
  • Do You Want To Work For the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission?
  • Inbox: Red Bull Cliff Diving Returns To Boston Waterfront
  • How Long Can Major Cannabis Cultivators Sustain Massive Indoor Grows In Mass?
  • Drunk On Drug Money, Easthampton Councilors Approve Second Tesla For Police

CURRENT STREET EDITION

DIG 24.08 – 04/21/22

Footer

Social Buttons

DigBoston facebook DigBoston Twitter DigBoston Instagram

Masthead

About

Advertise

Privacy Policy

Customer Service

Distribution

About Us

DigBoston is a one-stop nexus for everything worth doing or knowing in the Boston area. It's an alt-weekly, it's a website, it's an e-mail blast, it's a twitter account, it's that cool party that you were at last night ... hey, you're reading it, so it's gotta be good. For advertising inquiries: [email protected] To reach Editorial: [email protected] For internship opportunities: [email protected]