Man who beat classmate to death as teen gets parole [Video]

A Massachusetts man convicted as a teen of killing a 14-year-old classmate “for the heck of it” has been granted parole — 37 years after he was sent to prison.Rod Matthews was convicted in 1988 of second-degree murder in the November 1986 beating death of 14-year-old Shaun Ouillette, who he lured into the woods and bludgeoned with a baseball bat. He was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Matthews faced a parole board for the fifth time in June, and on Wednesday, parole was granted. According to court documents, in late October 1986, then-14-year-old Matthews told two classmates that he “wanted to know what it was like to kill someone.” Matthews decided to kill Ouillette because he “would be easy to get to and he probably would be the least missed … (because he) didn’t have many friends,” according to court documents. On Nov. 20, Matthews …