John Lennon's killer to face parole board again

In this 1975 file photo, Mark David Chapman is seen at Fort Chaffee near Fort Smith, Ark. / File,AP Photo/Greg Lyuan
(CBS News) The killer of former Beatle John Lennon could have a parole hearing as early as Tuesday, an official with the New York Department of Corrections said.
Mark David Chapman is up for parole for the seventh time since gunning down Lennon in front of his New York City apartment in December 1980. Corrections Department spokeswoman Linda Foglia told the Associated Press that he'll stand before the parole board sometime this week, with a decision possibly coming Thursday or Friday.
He was sentenced to 20 years to life in 1981 and was last denied parole in September 2010. Yoko Ono, Lennon's widow, has opposed Chapman's release in the past, citing safety concerns for her and her family.
Lennon would have been 72 in October. The date of his death, Dec. 8, is still marked to this day by a music-filled vigil in Central Park's "Strawberry Fields," located just across the street from where he was shot.
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The poet Lennon's own "imaginings" and those he inspired in so many of us...
That foul person should never be released...
Not even if he claims that he's all better now and is really very sorry and will never, ever, do it again
Who can predict who this cipher...this pathetic, attention craving non-entity...might decide he wants to be remembered for murdering next?
Agree though Mr. Lennon would side with forgiveness. A bigger humanitarian than most of us.
I feel deeply for Yoko and her family.
Ted Bundy and Charles Manson were unavailable too.