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This May 15, 2012 photo provided by the New York State Department of Corrections shows Mark David Chapman at the Wende Correctional Facility in Alden, N.Y. Chapman, who killed John Lennon in 1980, was denied release from prison in his seventh appearance before a parole board, New York corrections officials said Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. Chapman shot Lennon in December 1980 outside the Manhattan apartment building where the former Beatle lived. He was sentenced in 1981 to 20 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. (AP Photo/New York State Department of Corrections)

John Lennon killer denied parole

Last updated Thursday, August 23, 2012 - 1:22pm

NEW YORK - John Lennon’s killer, Mark David Chapman, was denied parole Thursday for the seventh time after officials in New York concluded that his actions showed a “callous disregard for the sanctity of human life.”

Chapman, 57, is scheduled to have his next appearance before the parole board in August 2014.

A statement released by the board said Chapman was interviewed via a video conference from the Wende Correctional Center in upstate New York on Wednesday. It said a full transcript of the conference would be released later.

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A photo provided by the California Department of Corrections shows 77-year-old serial killer Charles Manson Wed., April 4, 2012. Manson will have an April 11, 2011 parole hearing in California. (AP Photos/California Department of Corrections)

Charles Manson, now 77, gets new chance at parole

Andrew Blankstein, Shelby Grad Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 10:48am

LOS ANGELES -- After 11 failed bids for freedom, notorious serial killer Charles Manson, now 77, is up for parole later this month.

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Board: Ogden serial rapist Higgins to remain in prison for life

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, April 2, 2012 - 10:37pm

DRAPER — The State Board of Pardons has decided that prison will keep Ogden serial rapist Jason Brett Higgins, assigning him natural life status less than a week after his first parole hearing.

“The board has ordered that Jason Brett Higgins, age 38, (will) spend the rest of his life in prison,” board spokesman Jim Hatch said in a brief news release issued late Monday afternoon.

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Jacob Ethridge, seen here in 2nd District Court in Ogden in October 2010, had a parole hearing Tuesday. The man who pleaded guilty to shooting two Ogden women to death will likely never get out of prison, says Jim Hatch, the Board of Pardons spokesman. (Standard-Examiner file photo)

Man who murdered two Ogden women likely in prison for good

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, January 4, 2012 - 12:19am

POINT OF THE MOUNTAIN -- The state Board of Pardons may never let Jacob Ethridge out of prison.

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D.A. to fight parole for ex-model who ate husband's body parts

Richard Winton Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 10:04am

LOS ANGELES -- The former model at the center of one of Orange County's most notorious murder cases will go before a state parole board Wednesday seeking her freedom two decades after she killed her husband, cooked his body parts and ate them.

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Accomplice of accused Utah cop killer seeks parole

The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 4:17pm

DRAPER -- A man convicted of helping the accused killer of a Utah sheriff's deputy escape is seeking parole after one year in prison.

Fox 13 KSTU-TV in Salt Lake City reports Ruben Chavez-Reyes is asking the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole for leniency.

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More California killers being paroled

David Siders, The Sacramento Bee

Last updated Friday, April 29, 2011 - 1:53pm

California Gov. Jerry Brown is letting convicted killers leave prison on parole at a far higher rate than previous governors, only rarely using his power to block decisions of the parole board.

Early in his term, Brown has let 106 of 130 convicted killers' parole releases stand -- about 82 percent, according to Brown's office and records provided in response to a California Public Records Act request.

Brown's deference to the state Board of Parole Hearings is in contrast to his predecessors, who more aggressively used their power to overturn parole grants.

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Ohio board rejects condemned killer's mercy plea

Andrew Welsh-Huggins, The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, February 11, 2011 - 2:21pm

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio Parole Board has unanimously rejected mercy for the condemned killer of a storekeeper whose family opposes the upcoming execution.

Johnnie Baston is scheduled to die March 10 for the slaying of 53-year-old Chong-Hoon Mah, a South Korean immigrant who operated two retail stores in Toledo.

The nine-member board ruled Friday that Baston's failure to accept responsibility and the severity of Mah's execution-style killing outweigh the personal beliefs of Mah's family about the death penalty.

Mah's son, Peter Mah, says executing Baston won't change anything and won't bring back his father.

If put to death, Baston would become the first person in the United States executed with a single dose of pentobarbital, the new execution drug Ohio is switching to after supplies of the former drug ran out.

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