September 7th, 2010

John Lennon’s Killer, Mark David Chapman was up again for parole in 2010, and once again he was denied parole.  John Lennon’s killer has been disliked by generations of music lovers, as he plucked the very heart and soul right from the Beatles.

Chapman is serving a sentence of 20 years to life for the murder of the Beatles frontman.  He was convicted in 1980, and as such has been up for parole six times and denied six times.

“He goes about his business, doing his prison job and without any fanfare” is how Erik Kriss, a spokesman for the Department of Corrections where Chapman is incarcerated.

Yoko Ono has understandably made it her mission to keep her husband’s killer behind bars.  Millions of Beatles fans stand right there behind her every step of the way.

Still yet, I cannot help but wonder that had Mark David Chapman killed an average everyday normal person if he would have been granted parole.  Our system is supposed to be unbiased, but come on…he killed THE John Lennon.  Do you think a parole board is going to forget that?

I’m not taking up for the man that took one of music’s greats before his time, however as John Lennon’s Killer, Mark David Chapman, is up for parole and was denied again for the sixth time, I cannot help but think that there could be some bias in the system.  I just wish that parole boards across the world would think of every victim the same way they think of John Lennon and keep killers behind bars.