ALBANY, New York – The man who shot John Lennon outside his Manhattan apartment in 1980 has been denied release for the 11th time, state correction officials said Wednesday. Mark David Chapman was denied after interviews by a parole board Aug. 19, according to correctional officials. Chapman, 65, is serving …
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New Orleans A parole period for October has been set for a Black man sentenced to life in prison for stealing clippers in a 1997 burglary, a sentence the Louisiana Supreme Court has upheld, despite his appeal to the Supreme Court that the punishment was disproportionate and rooted in racist …
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