good. he'd get killed anyway, if he were ever let out. On Saturday, August 23, 2014 12:25:24 PM UTC-11, t bedford wrote: > > NEW YORK (AP) - John Lennon's killer was denied release from prison in his > eighth appearance before a parole board, correction officials said Friday. > > The decision on Mark David Chapman by a three-member board came after a > hearing Wednesday, the state Department of Corrections said. > > Chapman fired five shots on Dec. 8, 1980, outside the Dakota apartment > house where Lennon lived on Manhattan's Upper West Side, hitting the > ex-Beatle four times in front of his wife, Yoko Ono, and others. He was > sentenced in 1981 to 20 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to > second-degree murder. > > An attorney for Ono said Friday that she had no immediate comment. > > The panel wrote to the 59-year-old Chapman that it concluded that if > released, "you would not live and remain at liberty without again violating > the law." It added: "This victim had displayed kindness to you earlier in > the day, and your actions have devastated a family and those who loved the > victim." > > At his previous hearing in 2012, Chapman described how Lennon had agreed > to autograph an album cover for him earlier on the day of the killing. > > "He was very kind to me," he said. > > After that, "I did try to tell myself to leave. I've got the album, take > it home, show my wife, everything will be fine," he said. "But I was so > compelled to commit that murder that nothing would have dragged me away > from the building." > > At a 2010 hearing, Chapman recalled that he had considered shooting Johnny > Carson or Elizabeth Taylor instead, and said again that he chose Lennon > because the ex-Beatle was more accessible, that his century-old apartment > building by Central Park "wasn't quite as cloistered." > > The transcript of his latest hearing wasn't immediately released. Chapman > can try again for parole in two years. >
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