John Lennon's Killer, Mark David Chapman, Denied Parole for Ninth Time
John Lennon's murderer, Mark David Chapman, has been denied parole again. Chapman, age 61, killed the Beatle, who was 40, on Dec. 8, 1980. This was his ninth parole appeal on his 20-years-to-life sentence. Chapman will stay behind bars a minimum of two more years.
The scoop comes from the New York Daily News, although the source didn't have specifics about the ruling. "But in the past, the Parole Board—even while citing Chapman's clean prison record since 1994—has routinely said that releasing him would 'undermine respect for the law,'" the paper writes.
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