Or more accurately: “Can you Imagine if He shot an Average Joe?”
John Lennon’s killer was denied release from prison in his seventh appearance before a parole board, New York corrections officials said Thursday….Chapman shot Lennon in December 1980 outside the Manhattan apartment building where the former Beatle lived. He was sentenced in 1981 to 20 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. The musician, singer and songwriter was 40.
“Despite your positive efforts while incarcerated, your release at this time would greatly undermine respect for the law and tend to trivialize the tragic loss of life which you caused as a result of this heinous, unprovoked, violent, cold and calculated crime,” board member Sally Thompson wrote. Board members Joseph Crangle and Marc Coppola agreed.
The panel praised Chapman’s conduct and accomplishments but said “parole shall not be granted for good conduct and program completions alone.” The board noted there was significant opposition to his release.
If this had been a crazy homeless man stabbing a college co-ed on her way back from the bars, or on her way to class, do you think anybody but the immediate family would remember the case enough to express their feelings to the board?
The only reason why he’s going to the can is because he shot a member of the most popular band in the world. Still:
Chapman can try again for parole in two years.
Let’s face it the system WANTS him out, and frankly I don’t see the point. Not murdering people is EASY, I do it all the time, and just about everybody else does this as well. Why do we need to really be concerned about the few defective drones out there why not only don’t play by the rules, but have no concept that there are rules at all?
Bad Justice!
Anders breivik just got a shorter term than that for killing 77.
None of them were famous musicians.
How could he kill John lennon? More importantly, how could he not kill Yoko?