John Lennon‘s killer has been denied parole for the 14th time.
John Lennon’s killer has been denied parole
Mark David Chapman fatally shot the Beatles singer outside his Manhattan apartment building in December 1980 and was sentenced to 20 years to life behind bars the following August, and he recently made a fresh bid for release.
The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision revealed the 70-year-old killer appeared before a parole board on 27 August but his submission was denied.
The transcript for the latest hearing is not yet available.
However, at a 2022 hearing, Chapman admitted he knew his actions were “evil”.
He said: “I am not going to blame anything else or anybody else for bringing me there.
“I knew what I was doing, and I knew it was evil, I knew it was wrong, but I wanted the fame so much that I was willing to give everything and take a human life.”
Denying his release in 2022, the parole board said the murder of the Imagine singer had left “the world recovering from the void of which you created”.
Chapman shot Lennon after travelling from Hawaii to New York and hours earlier, the singer – who was 40 when he died – had signed his copy of his recently-released album Double Fantasy.
And in 2012, the killer admitted he had hesitated before committing the fatal act.
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