[quote]NEW YORK — Yoko Ono will again oppose the release of the man who nearly 30 years ago killed her husband, former Beatle John Lennon, and who comes up for parole next month, her lawyer said. Ono has consistently opposed parole for Mark David Chapman and has again sent a letter to the parole board, her lawyer, Peter Shukat, told the Daily News.
"Her position has not changed," Shukat said in an article published Tuesday.
Lennon was shot to death on December 8, 1980, outside the famed Dakota apartment building just west of Central Park as he and Ono returned home from a recording session.
Chapman -- now 55 and serving a 20-years-to-life sentence for the slaying -- is scheduled to be interviewed by a three-member parole board panel during the week of August 9. It will be his sixth bid for parole.
Shukat refused to say whether Ono's most recent letter to the board is the same one she has submitted every two years since Chapman first became eligible for parole in 2000.
In that letter, Ono wrote that if Chapman is released, "I am afraid it will bring back the nightmare, the chaos and confusion once again. Myself and John's two sons would not feel safe for the rest of our lives."
She also wrote that Chapman would not be safe if allowed back on the streets.
Due to his notoriety, Chapman is kept in a special unit apart from the upstate Attica prison's general population. He works as a porter, cleaning up offices, and assists inmates in one of the prison's law libraries.
Despite some early minor prison violations, Chapman's record has been clean since 1994, the Daily News said.
Robert Gangi, head of the prisoners' rights group, Correctional Association of America, doubts Chapman will be released because of the public outrage it would cause.
"Given that he committed a high-profile crime and he killed one of the most famous and most beloved figures literally in the world, it's highly unlikely three parole commissioners would vote to grant him release," Gangi told the News.
Lennon would have been 70 this October.[/quote]Source [URL]http://www.comcast.net/articles/music/20100727/MUSIC-US-LENNON/[/URL]
But he killed John Lennon :frown:
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I honestly couldn't blame her.
I say he should be released ... straight in to a mental hospital, where he's belonged since day one.
release him. he's better now and has got the mental help he needs.
the only reason he's still incarcerated is because he killed a Beatle
But once he gets parole, she'll want to kill him outside the public hearing but then he'll be shot by Falcone's thug making her unable to avenge her husband
Then she'll disappear for 7 years and return to assume the identity of Batwoman
If he gets released, some crazed beatle fan will probably kill him.
[QUOTE=BOP;23667660]If he gets released, some crazed beatle fan will probably kill him.[/QUOTE]
exactly what I was thinking.
Ether way, I think he should stay in. killing people is fucked up
She's requested him to be denied every time, and I hope she does until he dies in that fucking prison, You can't kill someone who was statistically more popular than any one god from any one religion in cold blood and expect to be released
Chapman waited outside Lennon's place and got him to sign a CD or something as Lennon left, and he waited until Lennon got back and shot him, there's a photo of Chapman and Lennon together where Lennon was signing that CD... and the look on Chapman's face (In hindsight) says Murder
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Homicide he confessed guilty to, after having told people he was having psychotic episodes and imagining killing John Lennon, that his therapist more or less ignored, and being in jail after 30 years of good behaviour and having found Christ?
You know he waited for the police to arrive when he shot Lennon outside The Dakota?
Horrible person, he should be skinned alive, all you need is love.
[QUOTE=BOP;23667660]If he gets released, some crazed beatle fan will probably kill him.[/QUOTE]
This is why he should be released.
He needs psychological help, not prison.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;23667706]She's requested him to be denied every time, and I hope she does until he dies in that fucking prison, You can't kill someone who was statistically more popular than any one god from any one religion in cold blood and expect to be released[/QUOTE]
Perversion of justice is okay if the victim is someone you really like?
Let him out, he did the crime, then did the time. People are only making a big fuss out of this because he was a member of the Beatles.
[QUOTE=rampageturke;23667973]Let him out, he did the crime, then did the time. People are only making a big fuss out of this because he was a member of the Beatles.[/QUOTE]
Murder, be it done by will or insanity, should be a life sentence with no parole.
[QUOTE=superdinoman;23668022]Murder, be it done by will or insanity, should be a life sentence with no parole.[/QUOTE]
You should preface that with 'I think'.
[QUOTE=superdinoman;23668022]Murder, be it done by will or insanity, should be a life sentence with no parole.[/QUOTE]
Mens rea (guilty mind) is in place in Canada to prevent things like that.
Too bad it's not in America or you wouldn't have your way.
[QUOTE=Tanner;23668121]You should preface that with 'I think'.[/QUOTE]
Nah what I think is that everyone who commits murder should be shot.
You know, when you think about it, John Lennon would probably want him to be released.
[QUOTE=JDK721;23667597]
the only reason he's still incarcerated is because he killed a Beatle[/QUOTE]
And for that he should remain in prison.
[QUOTE=superdinoman;23668022]Murder, be it done by will or insanity, should be a life sentence with no parole.[/QUOTE]
So if you have damage to your frontal lobe and you go and kill someone because of it, you should be locked up for life? Even if the damage is repaired and you're completely fixed and it wasn't your fault?
[QUOTE=superdinoman;23668274]Nah what I think is that everyone who commits murder should be shot.[/QUOTE]
If a retarded man kills someone, mens rea protects him.
Good thing you're in charge, that retarded man's going straight to the firing wall.
[QUOTE=superdinoman;23668274]Nah what I think is that everyone who commits murder should be shot.[/QUOTE]
An eye for an eye can make the whole world blind.
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All I can think of...
[QUOTE=Kagrenak;23668351]So if you have damage to your frontal lobe and you go and kill someone because of it, you should be locked up for life? Even if the damage is repaired and you're completely fixed and it wasn't your fault?[/QUOTE]
Your body, your fault, just cause your frontal lobe is damaged doesnt mean you have no self control. No matter how insane a person is there is always some sort of self control, letting yourself lose control because you are deluded by an illness is no excuse.
[QUOTE=superdinoman;23668528]Your body, your fault, just cause your frontal lobe is damaged doesnt mean you have no self control. No matter how insane a person is there is always some sort of self control, letting yourself lose control because you are deluded by an illness is no excuse.[/QUOTE]
you have no clue how mental illness works
[QUOTE=JDK721;23668609]you have no clue how mental illness works[/QUOTE]
Or maybe it is you who does not.
[QUOTE=raidenato;23667715]Horrible person, he should be skinned alive, all you need is love.[/QUOTE]
What.
[QUOTE=superdinoman;23668528]Your body, your fault, just cause your frontal lobe is damaged doesnt mean you have no self control. No matter how insane a person is there is always some sort of self control, letting yourself lose control because you are deluded by an illness is no excuse.[/QUOTE]
Actually, frontal lobe damage means exactly that, you lose your inhibition to do violence and great wrongs.
Good work arguing from a position of profound ignorance.
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[QUOTE=superdinoman;23668638]Or maybe it is you who does not.[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure it's you, man.
[QUOTE=Kagrenak;23668665]
Pretty sure it's you, man.[/QUOTE]
No Im sure its the rest of you, bullets are cheap, keeping a person alive for life is not.
to all you people thinking he should be skinned alive or shot, you must have some mental problem or something. nobody deserves being skinned alive. john lennon died a fairly painless death.
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