John Lennon Killer Parole: Appeals for Release this Week After 32 Years Behind Bars

Mark David Chapman, the man who shot and killed former Beatles' legend John Lennon, will undergo his seventh parole hearing sometime this week in an attempt to appeal for his release after  spending the last 32 years behind bars.

According to the New York Department of Corrections, Chapman (who shot and killed 40-year-old Lennon outside a New York apartment building in December 1980) will be interviewed by the parole board sometime this week, and a decision could be announced by Thursday or Friday.

Chapman, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison, has requested parole every two years since 2000. Chapman was just recently transferred to Wende Correctional Facility in Alden, NY after having spent 31 years at the Attica Correctional Facility.

During Chapman's parole hearing back in 2010, the parole board denied his release due to the "disregard [he] displayed for the norms of our society and the sanctity of human life."

At this time, many fans (including Lennon's widow Yoko Ono) sent letters to New York's Department of Corrections urging for Chapman's continued imprisonment. Ono insisted that Chapmen posed a risk to her, Lennon's two sons, the public, and himself.

Police found Chapman, then 25, at the scene of Lennon's death reading a copy of J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye." Before being arrested, Chapman tried to commit suicide and soon after received treatment for depression.

Chapman, now 57, claims that his faith in Christianity has deepened during his three-decade stint in prison - he hopes to get a job and live with his wife if released from prison.