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Argonath RPG Community => Speakerbox => World and local news => Topic started by: Reece on August 21, 2012, 01:01:43 am

Title: John Lennon's killer Mark Chapman has another parole hearing
Post by: Reece on August 21, 2012, 01:01:43 am: Chapman, 57, will have his seventh parole hearing this week, the New York State Department of Corrections said. A statement on whether or not he is to be released is expected by the end of the week.
Chapman is serving a 20 year sentence for shooting the former Beatle dead outside the musician's New York City apartment building on December 8, 1980. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
He has had a parole hearing every two years since 2000 and has been rejected every time.

After his hearing in 2010, the three-member parole board cited in written comments to Chapman, the "disregard you displayed for the norms of our society and the sanctity of human life" as their reasons for rejecting his request.
Ahead of that hearing, the parole division received dozens of letters arguing against Chapman's release, including one from Lennon's widow Yoko Ono, who said she believed Chapman posed a risk to her, Lennon's two sons, the public and himself.

This week's hearing will take place at Wende Correctional Facility in Alden, New York, where Chapman is being held. He was transferred there in May from Attica Correctional Facility where he had been held for 31 years.
Chapman shot Lennon four times in the back outside the Dakota apartment building in Manhattan, New York, where Lennon was living at the time.

At Chapman's parole hearing in September 2010, he told the board that there were other names on his list of potential targets including the talk show host Johnny Carson and Elizabeth Taylor.
"If it wasn't Lennon, it could have been someone else," he said, adding that he chose the singer because he was "more accessible".
Chapman also explained why he had decided to murder a celebrity. He added: "I felt that by killing John Lennon I would become somebody and, instead of that, I became a murderer, and murderers are not somebodies. Instead of taking my life I took somebody else's, which was unfortunate."

At his 2010 hearing Chapman said he expected to be left in jail, adding: "The average person on the street would probably say 'Leave him in' and I understand that."
Title: Re: John Lennon's killer Mark Chapman has another parole hearing
Post by: JDC on August 21, 2012, 11:20:16 am: Strange how he continues to make such requests if he already expects people to deny it.
Title: Re: John Lennon's killer Mark Chapman has another parole hearing
Post by: saberman on August 21, 2012, 12:17:18 pm: Quote from: JDC on August 21, 2012, 11:20:16 am
Strange how he continues to make such requests if he already expects people to deny it.
But why not? It might be accepted.
Title: Re: John Lennon's killer Mark Chapman has another parole hearing
Post by: Reece on August 21, 2012, 12:20:43 pm: Quote from: saberman on August 21, 2012, 12:17:18 pm
But why not? It might be accepted.

If he was given parole, he'd be a walking dead man. He would become a huge target for people to attack him, and I have no doubt in my mind that he would be killed.
Title: Re: John Lennon's killer Mark Chapman has another parole hearing
Post by: saberman on August 21, 2012, 12:32:37 pm: He might be a threat, yes, I do not deny that, by my post I meant that there's still a hope for him.
Title: Re: John Lennon's killer Mark Chapman has another parole hearing
Post by: JDC on August 21, 2012, 02:39:29 pm: Unlike killing John Lennon, killing John Lennon's killer might actually be seen as a badge of honor (even if killing is wrong).

Chapman is safer off in the prison. He gets free shelter, free food, and much less chance that people will go hunting for John Lennon's killer.
Title: Re: John Lennon's killer Mark Chapman has another parole hearing
Post by: Dolfagr on August 24, 2012, 12:39:27 am: Denied.
Title: Re: John Lennon's killer Mark Chapman has another parole hearing
Post by: ElMartu on August 24, 2012, 12:44:35 am: CIA killed Lennon

etc
Title: Re: John Lennon's killer Mark Chapman has another parole hearing
Post by: Salmonella on August 24, 2012, 12:58:03 am: Quote from: JDC on August 21, 2012, 02:39:29 pm
Unlike killing John Lennon, killing John Lennon's killer might actually be seen as a badge of honor (even if killing is wrong).

Never.

I'm a fan of the Beatles, and some of John Lennon's work during his time in the Beatles, but I wouldn't glorify the person that would kill Chapman. I wouldn't like to see Chapman get killed either. What's done is done.

Besides, John Lennon's work as a solo artist was complete bullshit. Yoko Ono (Band)/Plastic Ono Band is complete ear-rape. John Lennon was my least favourite Beatle.

Chapman is safest in prison, but if he honestly wants to be released from prison, I'd like to see him get released. He deserves freedom after 32 years, in my opinion.
Title: Re: John Lennon's killer Mark Chapman has another parole hearing
Post by: JDC on August 24, 2012, 02:26:35 am: Quote from: Salmonella on August 24, 2012, 12:58:03 am
Never.

I'm a fan of the Beatles, and some of John Lennon's work during his time in the Beatles, but I wouldn't glorify the person that would kill Chapman. I wouldn't like to see Chapman get killed either. What's done is done.

You may not wish for something to happen to Chapman, but there is no guarantee that the Beatles do not have more aggressive fans who would like to see the blood of John Lennon's killer.
Title: Re: John Lennon's killer Mark Chapman has another parole hearing
Post by: Woka on August 24, 2012, 02:27:50 am: Quote from: Dolfagr on August 24, 2012, 12:39:27 am
Denied.
Yerp
It's been denied,saw it on TMZ Like half-hour ago
Title: Re: John Lennon's killer Mark Chapman has another parole hearing
Post by: Salmonella on August 24, 2012, 07:00:28 pm: [aleksander mode] Did you know that John Lennon's dead was planned as soon as 1967 when The Magical Mystery Tour album was released?

This is one of the pages in the Magical Mystery Tour booklet.

(http://ludix.com/moriarty/images/mdc.jpg)

And this is John, wearing a phony mustache.

Beside him is a sign which reads, "The best way to go is by M D & C."

Thirteen years to the day after this album was released in England, John learned that the best way to go was indeed by M D & C ... the initials of his assassin, Mark David Chapman.[/mode]