Biography of Mark Kapman

Mark Chepmen asked for forgiveness for the murder of John Lennon to the photo, John Lennon and Yoko, in the year on September 22, Mark Chepman, who killed John Lennon in the year, apologized to the widow of the musician Yoko, 40 years after the crime committed. The documents of the hepman was considered with the documents of the early release of the Capen, the reporters of the Press Association agency got acquainted.

On the evening of December 8, the Capman in the presence of it shot Lennon in the back four times when the couple returned to his apartment in New York. Lennon was 40 years old, and at that moment he was one of the most famous people on the planet: the creator of the Beatles, a solo musician, a political activist. When the police arrived, he was sitting at the crime scene and reading the book “Above the abyss in the rye” of Jerome Salinger, with the main character of which he associated himself.

For the murder of Lennon, Capen received a life imprisonment with the possibility of early release no earlier than 20 years later. Since the year, the commission denied him 11 times. The last hearing on which he apologized to it was held in August. On it, Capen told the court that he killed Lennon for the sake of personal glory. The prisoner added that he thinks about his “disgusting act” every day and that he considers the correct punishment for himself the death penalty.

This was done for the sake of personal glory. I believe that this is the worst crime that can only be committed against nothing of a guilty person. ”I killed him not because of his personal qualities, not because he was a person. He was a family man. He was a symbol. He was a man who raised issues that we can talk about now, and this is wonderful.” And I was very, very, very, very, very much looking for personal glory, I only thought about myself, ”the Capman added.

It was an extremely selfish act. I want to apologize to her [it] for the pain that I caused her. I think about it all the time.” The new biography of John Lennon breaks the covers from the novel with Yoko in the documents, which the Press Association agency received, it says that the commission once again refused the commemoration of early release, since it would be incompatible with the successful functioning of society.

At the time of the crime, the Chepman was 25 years old. Now he is 65, he is married, and his wife lives not far from a maximum security prison, in which the Capena has been contained for the last eight years for his safety. There he is carrying out the position of clerical worker and other works. At the hearing before the commission, he was described as a deeply religious person, a convinced Christian.

Remembering this at the speech before the commission, the Chapman said that he was close to the main character, suffering from isolation and loneliness. After that, he added that he deserves the death penalty, which was canceled in the state of New York in the year, and the last prisoner there was executed almost 60 years ago. When the Chepmen was asked if his punishment was fair, he replied: "I do not deserve anything.

If the law and you prefer to leave me here until the end of my days, there will be no complaints on my part." In its decision, the commission on conditional release came to the conclusion that the Chepman should not be released from prison by ordering him "personal growth and productive use of time." Next time, the opportunity to ask about early release is hidden by Capen in two years.