Mark David Chapman, the man who shot and killed John Lennon in New York's Upper West Side over 40 years ago, was denied parole for the 12th time.
that releasing him would be"incompatible with the welfare and safety of society." Chapman had shown"a callous disregard" of human pain and suffering, the panel said.
Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, has historically sent a letter to the parole board every two years to request her husband's murderer remain in prison,Chapman traveled from Hawaii to New York to assassinate Lennon on Dec. 8, 1980, and had even met the Beatles star earlier that same day, according to the. During that parole hearing, Chapman told the panel that he had briefly struggled internally on whether to carry out the murder.
"It wasn't all totally cold-blooded, but most of it was. I did try to tell myself to leave. I've got the album, take it home, show my wife, everything will be fine," Chapman said in 2012."But I was so compelled to commit that murder that nothing would have dragged me away from that building."