Mark David Chapman, 65, faces up to 20 years in prison for shooting and murdering Lennon, one of the Beatles’s and a solo artist in his own right.
A spokesman for the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision told CNN that Chapman had his 11th hearing before the Board of Parole on August 19th.
Chapman will serve his sentence at least another two years before his next hearing in August 2022, the spokesman said. The spokesman would not give details as to why Chapman was released.
CNN reported from a 2018 hearing Chapman said he felt “more and more ashamed” as the years went by.
Chapman decided to shoot and kill Lennon after waiting outside Lennon’s apartment building, the Dakota, in Manhattan on December 8, 1980. Lennon signed his then-released “Double Fantasy” album for Chapman hours before Chapman shot him four times in the back on his Get home.
Chapman was arrested at the scene without incident and pleaded guilty to the shooting.
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