The man who murdered John Lennon has been denied parole for the 14th time. The decision was posted online by the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. Mark David Chapman, who is now 70, first became eligible for parole in 2000, 20 years after he fatally shot the former Beatle outside his New York City apartment. He most recently appeared before a parole board on 27 August. Chapman pleaded guilty to killing Lennon outside the Dakota apartment complex on 8 December 1980, where he was returning from a night out with his wife, Yoko Ono. Lennon was 40 when he died. Chapman was found waiting for authorities outside the building with a copy of JD Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye, and was sentenced to 20 years to life in 1981. In 2022, Chapman said in unsealed transcripts from a 12th parole hearing that there was "evil in my heart". "I am not going to blame anything else or anybody else for bringing me there," Chapman told the board during the previous hearing. "I knew what I was doing, and I knew it was evil, I knew it was wrong, but I wanted the fame so much that I was willing to give everything and take a human life." The latest parole board hearing transcript has not yet been released. Chapman's next parole hearing is set for February 2027.