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Was John Lennon's Killer More Dangerous Than My Husband's? Widow Asks

By MARK TOOR
Posted 10/16/18

“It is mind-boggling that the parole board could find that the release of musician John Lennon’s murderer was incompatible with the welfare of society but the release of cop-killers isn’t.”

Those are the words of Diane Piagentini, whose husband, Joseph, and his partner, Waverly Jones,  were ambushed and assassinated by three members of the Black Liberation Army at a Harlem housing project in 1971.

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