The executioner, 67 — who was up for parole in August and denied for the twelfth time — supposedly told New York state authorities during his hearing that he knew that killing the unbelievable Beatles co-frontman was off-base, as per a record delivered to the Related Press on Monday.

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“I won’t fault anything more or any other person for bringing me there,” Chapman told the board.

“I understood what I was doing, and I realized it was detestable, I realized it was off-base, yet I needed the distinction such a lot of that I was able to give all that and take a human existence.”

He proceeded, “This was malicious in my heart. I needed to be someone and nothing planned to stop that.”

Chapman gunned down Lennon, 40, outside The Dakota apartment complex on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Dec. 8, 1980.

The two had run into each other before in the day when Chapman had gotten the artist’s signature on a duplicate of his as of late delivered collection, Twofold Dream, per the AP.

Chapman purchased the weapon three months before the shooting and afterward ventured out to New York City from Hawaii to do the wrongdoing.

— Yoko Ono ☮️🏳️ (@yokoono) December 8, 2021

He was denied parole for the eleventh time in 2020. In the years since his grievous demise, Lennon has held symbol status in the music business, and is in many cases recalled by his relatives and his previous bandmates. At the Aug. 31 hearing, Chapman permitted that his activities conveyed huge results.

“I hurt a many individuals out of control and if someone has any desire to detest me, that is alright, I get it,” he said. Parole load up individuals denied his delivery due to a “narrow minded negligence for human existence of worldwide result.” He will go before the load up for a thirteenth time frame in February 2024, NBC News detailed.

Chapman is serving a 20-year-to-life sentence at Green Shelter Restorative Office in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Lately, Yoko Ono, 89, has honored her late spouse via web-based entertainment by sharing firearm viciousness measurements.

Keep going December, on the 41st commemoration of his passing, she offered an unmistakable measurement.

“Over 1.5 million individuals have been killed by weapons in the U.S.A. since John Lennon was shot and killed on December 8, 1980,” Ono composed.