The United States justice again denied the possibility of parole to David Chapman, the man who shot and killed John Lennon in 1980 as he was arriving at his New York apartment.
On December 8, 1980, as Lennon approached his Manhattan apartment with his wife Yoko Ono, Mark David Chapman, then 25, shot him four times.
The former member of The Beatles died on the way to the hospital.
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Chapman attended a parole board in late August. And this week Justice denied Lennon’s killer parole for the twelfth time, as reported by the AP agency, citing New York prison officials.
Although the transcripts of the last hearing against Lennon’s murderer have not emerged, in the past, the justice considered that freeing Chapman “would be incompatible with the welfare of society.” Reason that could have motivated the request for release to be denied again.
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono in New York.
The murderer’s confession
At a hearing where he also applied for parole in 2020, Chapman apologized for the murder of John Lennon.
On that occasion, claimed that he murdered him by a selfish act: “I murdered him (…) because he was very, very, very famous and that’s the only reason and I was very, very, very, (focused) looking for personal glory, (it was) very selfish,” he said, as quoted BBC.
Chapman also reiterated that he regretted the crime and assured that he had no excuse for the murder committed, since it was a personal glory.
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“He was extremely famous. I didn’t kill him because of his personality or the kind of man he was. He was a family man. He was an icon. (…) I think it is the worst crime that can be against someone who is innocent”, he reiterated.
Chapman can reapply for parole in two years, that is, he could make the request in February 2024, according to the AP agency.
Yoko Ono, Lennon’s wife, has repeatedly expressed her fear that Chapman will be paroled and could hurt a member of his family after spending so many years in prison.
“One thing I think is that he did it once and he could do it again, to someone else,” Yoko Ono was quoted as saying by the BBC.
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