New York State correctional officers have revealed that John Lennon’s killer has been denied parole for the 11th time.
Named Mark David Chapman, the 65-year-old gunman is currently serving a 20-years-to-life sentence at the Wende Correctional Facility east of Buffalo, New York.
The Texas-born killer traveled from Hawaii to do the horrific deed on the night of December 8, 1980, when he gunned down Lennon in front of his Manhattan home mere hours after personally meeting, and even getting a signed album from him. He has since stated that he was enraged by the widely publicized statement by Lennon, in which he said that The Beatles were even more popular than Jesus, and he also took opposition to many of the lyrics used in the songs “Imagine” and “God.”
“I was too far in,” Chapman told a parole board in 2018. “I do remember having the thought of, ‘Hey, you have got the album now. Look at this, he signed it, just go home.’ But there was no way I was just going to go home.”
Chapman’s next parole hearing is scheduled for August 2022.
