Mark David Chapman tells his version of John Lennon slay

Speaking of the Beatles , I hope Mark David Chapman , rots his miserable life away in Prison ,Changed man or not he committed a brutal crime , Shooting an innocent man in the back just because He felt that he was "phony" regardless of who it is , should equal the death penalty! So heres to you Mark D Chapman , and Denied Parole again !
You are a "Big nothing And a NOBODY" Daily news

The man who killed John Lennon says he's sorry he shot the legendary rocker - but disputed media reports on how the murder went down.

"I shot him in the back," Mark David Chapman told a two-person Parole Board panel last week during a hearing before being denied release for a fifth time.

He denied longstanding media accounts that he called out to Lennon as he and his wife, Yoko Ono, returned to their Dakota building apartment after a late-night recording session.

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"I don't recall saying, 'Mr. Lennon,'" Chapman said. "I think that was something the press elaborated on. That didn't happen. He didn't turn. I shot him in the back."

Chapman, who is serving a 20-year-to-life sentence at the upstate Attica Correctional Facility for the Dec. 8, 1980, murder, said he's not the same man today.

"I am ashamed," Chapman said. "I am sorry for what I did. That 25-year-old man, I don't think he appreciated the life he was taking, that this was a human being.

"I feel now at 53 that I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is. I have changed a lot."

Chapman said while he might have had a beer that day, he was not on drugs and was of "clear mind" when he succumbed to his "compulsion" to kill Lennon.

He said he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder "for my conscience's sake. I felt the Lord had told me to plead guilty at that time, and I did."

Chapman retold how he traveled to New York City twice to kill Lennon.

"I had been going through some problems and was very confused ... and was feeling like a big nothing and a nobody," he said.

He had taken out some books on Lennon from the library and felt he was a "phony" for singing of love while living in a ritzy building.

"It was more about me and not him, I was probably mad at myself for my failures," he said.

The last straw was when he saw Lennon's face on the Sgt. Pepper's album cover.

"I just saw his face and it seemed like it all came together, the solution to my problem of being confused and feeling like a nobody," he said. "And I said, 'Wouldn't it be something if I killed this individual? I would become famous, I would be something other than a nobody.' And that was my reasoning at the time."

He recalled how he bought a gun with hollow-point bullets from a friend in Georgia, telling him it was simply for protection in New York City.

After returning to Hawaii following an aborted first attempt, "The urges built again about doing this, and then I flew back on Dec. 6, and on the 8th I shot Mr. Lennon."

Ono asked the board to deny Chapman parole.

The board agreed, saying his release would "not be compatible with the welfare of society at large."