Posted on 09/07/2010 1:56:43 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
John Lennon's killer will continue watching the wheels go round from behind bars after being denied parole Tuesday for a sixth time.
Mark David Chapman met with a three-member Parole Board panel at the Attica Correctional Facility via video conference.
Chapman was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison after he was convicted of shooting the ex-Beatle four times outside his apartment on Dec. 8, 1980. He has served nearly 30 years of his sentence.
Chapman is next eligible to try for parole in two years. He was first eligible for parole in 2000.
Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, had reiterated her desire to the Parole Board that Chapman be kept behind bars.
Lennon, who would have turned 70 next month, was shot to death by Chapman while returning to his famed Dakota building apartment across from Central Park after a late-night recording session.
I seem to recall Lennon and Ronald Reagan by chance ran into each other during a Monday Night Football halftime and actually got along quite well.
That made me chuckle.
Looks more like the guy who reads my gas meter.
I loved the guy’s music until Yoko ruined the band and read that he was pretty strung out on heroin at the time of his death. What I don’t get is why some bad ass lifer Beatles fan hasn’t carved his heart out with a rusty spoon by now.
He bought NYCPD bullet proof vests with his own money, and was beginning to understand the paramount importance of being a responsible parent. His magnificent “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)” is among the best songs ever written about fatherhood.
He did give up the opportunity to make a bundle just to be
with his kid. If he was maturing, it's a pity he's gone.
I loved a lot of his music.
executed? LOL!
The last execution in NY was in 1963 for murder and robbery. This was the last execution in New York prior to the death penalty being declared unconstitutional in New York.
I thought the gun did it.
I have a feeling Julian would disagree.
He looks a little like J.D. Hayworth. I think he should be paroled. Yes, he broke the law, but at least we didn’t have to hear much more of that lousy solo material.
All the liberal Lennon fans want Chapman to “rot in prison”, but are perfectly fine with allowing killers of the less hip and glamorous, to serve hideously lenient jail sentences.
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You’ve got that right.
Especially cop killers, like Mumia.
But they fought to let John Hinckley go.
Well, cop killers are heroes to that bunch.
And, some of us HARD CORE CONSERVATIVE Lennon fans too...
If I remember correctly, OJ Simpson and Meridith overlapped for one or two seasons in the early 80's.
You could tell Meridith saw right through OJ's facade.
And Steven Curtis Chapman is still a free man. (After all, who did more harm to music?)
Right, but the point I was making was about the double standard of liberal Lennon fans.
The largely ignorant, serial murderer Simpson deployed transparently juvenile, openly arrogant racism regularly on MNF.
Ain’t it the truth.
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