ALBANY, N.Y., Oct. 5 (UPI) -- The New York State Parole Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to keep John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, in prison.
Chapman, 49, serving a sentence of 20 years to life, will remain in the Attica Correctional Facility, at Attica, N.Y., for the 1980 killing of Lennon, who was shot outside his New York City home, reported thesmokinggun.com.
The three-member panel nored in a statement Chapman's "extreme malicious intent" in the shooting of the ex-Beatle and that Chapman "subjected the wife of the victim to monumental suffering by her witnessing the crime."
Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, wrote the parole board asking it to keep Chapman incarcerated because she feared for her son's lives if he was paroled.
Chapman, denied parole in 2000 and 2002, is eligible for another parole review in October 2006.
