According to a transcript released Wednesday, Mark David Chapman told a parole board that killing John Lennon was "a very selfish act and I deeply regret it."
The state parole board, while noting Mark David Chapman's good conduct record in prison, told him that paroling him "would greatly undermine respect for the law and tend to trivialize the tragic loss of life which you caused."
Mark David Chapman, who murdered John Lennon in 1980, is still in protective custody, now in a prison in Erie County, but the reason for his move was not disclosed.
In his latest (unsuccessful) parole hearing, Mark David Chapman, now 55, recalls the day he shot John Lennon.
Mark David Chapman told a parole panel that he lied to his wife in the months before killing John Lennon, telling her that he was "going to find myself" and "get my life together."