The man who shot and killed John Lennon outside his Manhattan apartment building in 1980 has been denied parole for the 12th time, New York corrections officials said Monday. Mark David Chapman, 67, appeared before a parole board in late August, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. Chapman shot and killed Lennon on the night of December 8, 1980, as Lennon and Yoko Ono were returning to their Upper West Side apartment. Lennon had signed an autograph for Chapman on a copy of his newly released album, “Double Fantasy,” earlier that day. State officials have not yet made transcripts of Chapman’s latest interview available, but he has repeatedly expressed remorse at previous parole hearings. Chapman called his actions “despicable” during his 2020 hearing and said he would have “no complaints” if they chose to leave him in prison for the rest of his life. “I murdered him… because he was very, very, very famous and that was the only reason and I was looking very, very, very much for his own glory. Very selfish,” Chapman said at the time. Chapman is serving a sentence of 20 years to life at Green Haven Correctional Facility in upstate New York, according to electronic state corrections records. He next appears before the parole board in February 2024.
