Is John Lennon’s Killer About To Be Released?

The 57-year-old inmate Wende Correctional Facility is scheduled to be interviewed by members of the parole board this week. New York Department of Corrections member Linda Foglia has said that the board would make a decision on whether to release Lennon’s murderer by Friday.

Chapman shot Lennon in December 1980 outside the Manhattan apartment building where the 40-year old former Beatle lived. He was sentenced in 1981 to 20 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.

Chapman was transferred in May from the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York to the nearby Wende Correctional Facility. Both are maximum security. The prison system doesn’t disclose why inmates are transferred.