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John Lennon’s Killer Mark David Chapman Denied Parole for 10th Time

Mark David Chapman staying behind bars for at least two more years.

The man who killed John Lennon has been denied parole for the tenth time and will stay behind bars for at least two more years. Mark David Chapman, 63, murdered the former Beatle outside his Manhattan apartment on Dec. 8, 1980. Chapman is serving 20-years-to-life in the Wende Correctional Facility in western New York. “While no one person’s life is any more valuable than another’s life, the fact that you chose someone who was not only a world-renowned person and beloved by millions, regardless of the pain and suffering you would cause to his family, friends, and so many others, you demonstrated a callous disregard for the sanctity of human life and the pain and suffering of others,” the parole panel wrote in its denial decision Wednesday. It added that releasing Chapman would “so deprecate the serious nature of the crime as to undermine respect for the law.”