[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 19705-19706]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                   JOHN LENNON MURDERER WANTS FREEDOM

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, John Lennon's murderer says he should be 
set free, and even John Lennon, who was a liberal, would agree he 
should be set free.
  Think about it. Chapman said, ``My mental illness is over. I am 
eating, I am breathing, I am even singing and playing the guitar.''
  Now, if that is not enough to throw up, let us remember Chapman's 
testimony. ``I asked Lennon for his autograph. He gave it to me. It was 
a ploy. I killed him. It was not his signature I wanted, I wanted his 
life.''

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  Beam me up. Mark Chapman deserves an electric chair, not an electric 
guitar.
  I yield back the fact that America, that tolerates murderers like 
Mark Chapman, is an America that promotes and tolerates more murderers.
  I yield back the life of John Lennon.

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