John Lennon’s killer sentenced
On this day in 1981, Mark David Chapman, the man who murdered John Lennon, was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison, marking the culmination of a tragic and deeply unsettling series of events that began months earlier. John Lennon, one of the founding members of The Beatles and a global icon, was gunned down on December 8, 1980, outside his New York City apartment, the Dakota.