Mark David Chapman, the killer of singer John Lennon will stay imprisoned for two more years minimum following the decline of his request for parole. He was denied parole on Aug. 24, Wednesday, by a state board panel with three members.
Chapman has been requesting parole and been denied for the ninth time, PEOPLE reported. He was also denied parole in 2014. The next time he is up for parole again is in Aug. 2018.
The 61-year-old The Beatles fan shot Lennon in New York City on Dec. 8, 1980. Chapman fired four bullets to the singer in front of the latter's wife, Yoko Ono outside the Dakota Apartment building, Upper West Side, Manhattan where Lennon and Ono lived. The Fort Worth, Texas-born Chapman had a passion for The Beatles, particularly, Lennon, according Crime Investigation.
Chapman pleaded guilty in 1981 to second-degree murder. He is currently serving 20 years to life in Wende Correctional Facility, Alden, New York.
The Board of Parole commends Chapman for accepting responsibility of his crime that was described as "premeditated, selfish and evil." However, his crime which nature is celebrity seeking outweighs his support network, rehabilitative efforts and institutional records.
The Chapman-addressed parole panel wrote, "From our interview and review of your records, we find that your release would be incompatible with the welfare of society and would so deprecate that seriousness of the crime as to undermine respect for the law."
Ono is determined not to transfer from the apartment where she and her husband lived and shared happy memories. She found it difficult to think about her husband's killer who does not seem to think what he had done was a bad thing. The concern is Chapman could do it again to somebody else.
Chapman previously admitted at a 2010 hearing that he considered shooting Elizabeth Taylor and Johnny Carson but Lennon's residence was more accessible from Central Park. A transcript of the parole hearing in 2012 had the killer recalling he considered going home but was compelled to commit the crime.
"I've got the album, take it home, show my wife, everything will be fine," Chapman said as per a record of the 2012 hearing. "But I was so compelled to commit that murder that nothing would have dragged me away from that building."
Here's a scoop of Chapman being denied of parole again.
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