The male who shot and killed John Lennon outside the house his Manhattan condominium developing in 1980 has been denied parole for a 12th time, New York corrections officers mentioned Monday.
Mark David Chapman, 67, appeared prior to a parole board at the end of August, in accordance to the point out Department of Corrections and Neighborhood Supervision.
Chapman shot and killed Lennon on the evening of Dec. 8, 1980, as Lennon and Yoko Ono have been returning to their Higher West Side apartment. Lennon had signed an autograph for Chapman on a duplicate of his just lately launched album, “Double Fantasy,” previously that day.
State officials have nonetheless to make transcripts of Chapman’s most current board interview offered, but he has regularly expressed remorse in prior parole hearings. Chapman called his steps “despicable” for the duration of his listening to in 2020, and explained he would have “no grievance whatsoever” if they chose to leave him in jail for the relaxation of his lifestyle.
“I assassinated him … since he was extremely, incredibly, really popular and which is the only explanation and I was very, quite, very, incredibly substantially seeking self-glory. Very egocentric,” Chapman stated then.
Chapman is serving a 20-several years-to-lifetime sentence at Green Haven Correctional Facility, north of New York Town, in accordance to on line point out corrections documents.
He is future due to seem ahead of the parole board in February 2024.
