John Lennon

On Tuesday Mark David Chapman was again denied parole for 6th time, almost 30 years after killing Mr. Lennon outside the Dakota located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

After questioning him through a teleconference at Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York, State Division of Parole board determined not to free the John Lennon’s killer. After becoming eligible for parole in 2000 it was his sixth appearance. Now in 2012 he will be eligible to apply again. The board wrote to Mr. Chapman, after the judgment on Tuesday that:

“The disregard you displayed for the norms of our society and the sanctity of human life when, after careful planning, you traveled to New York for the sole purpose of killing John Lennon.”

The panel said that “Release remains unsuitable at this time and unsuited with the welfare of the community”

According to the New York Daily News, parole division received 75 letters against Chapman’s discharge, plus one from Lennon’s 77-year-old widow, Yoko Ono, who said that she thought Chapman posed a hazard to her, Lennon’s two sons, the public and even to himself.

Mr. Chapman spend 30 years of his life as a prisoner after firing five shots on Dec. 8, 1980, hitting Mr. Lennon four times ahead of his wife and others. Mr. Chapman appealed guilty to second-degree murder.

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