Posted on 08/29/2016 4:01:16 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — John Lennon’s killer will remain behind bars after being denied parole for the ninth time.
The New York state Board of Parole on Monday announced that it has again denied parole to Mark David Chapman, who on Dec. 8, 1980, shot and killed the former Beatle outside his luxury Manhattan apartment.
The 61-year-old Chapman pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and is serving a sentence of 20-years to life in Wende Correctional Facility in western New York.
In a description of its decision, the parole board noted that Chapman has since described the murder as “selfish and evil.” The board concluded that the factors supporting Chapman’s parole were outweighed by the premediated and “celebrity-seeking” nature of the crime.
“Your release would be incompatible with the welfare of society and would so deprecate that seriousness of the crime as to undermine respect for the law,” the board wrote.
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Harrison never spoke his name aloud. Neither will I.
Aw, c’mon, parole him next door to me. I’ll take good care of him.
Well it's not like he shot Reagan or something.
So try to kill a president and get paroled but kill an entertainer and no chance of getting out.
(sardonic chuckle)
Hinckley was found not guilty by a jury. So not a valid comparison.
Boy, did you ever beat me to that one.
So try to kill a president and get paroled but kill an entertainer and no chance of getting out.Well, considering he was successful, a case can be made.
More competent = more dangerous
Makes me think about the time up here when the authorities found the man who fatally shot CJOH TV sportscaster Brian Smith in 1995 not criminally responsible for his actions as he was a diagnosed schizophrenic. A few years later, they let him out of the mental hospital so he could live with his brother and be on his own unsupervised. Shortly thereafter, he expresses his thanks for such treatment by trying to cross into the United States at the Peace Bridge station in Buffalo and then proceeding to violently assault a U.S. Customs officer.
By reason of insanity. What does that even mean anymore? Insanity is now normal.
I think Hinkley and Lennon's killer are both nuts. Personally, I believe being "nuts" in conjunction with a violent attempt on someone's life ought to be an automatic death sentence.
I do not care that some insane person does not understand right from wrong. One does not have to moralize about shooting down a rabid dog. It is not necessary that the dog understand what it has done or why it is being shot. It is only necessary that it be shot.
Great minds think alike! :)
Good.
He’ll never be right.
Once violently insane, always violently insane. Imho, of course.
If Lennon was deported like he should have been, he might still be alive.
Well, one of them was successfully with the insanity defense, the other wasn’t. It’s much easier to get out of a mental institution than it is to get out of maximum security prison.
But the guy that shot Reagan is let out?
I can remember reading an interview with Alana Kainz (Brian Smith’s widow) and she attended the release hearing/discussion at the facility in Penetanguishine, Ontario (where Canadian versions of John Hinckley Jrs are kept).
She said (and I found this both very heartbreaking and angering to read about) that the hearing lasted about one to two hours and her late husband’s name was mentioned maybe once or twice at the most and only at about the start of the whole thing. As if this guy just had one too many at the local pub and then proceeded to run down someone’s dog, instead of the horrible, senseless thing he actually did.
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