Friday, August 22, 2014

Christopher Newsom/Channon Christian Petition

Via Nancy

Deny Parole to Vanessa Coleman, Offender #473393

On the evening of January 6, 2007, Christopher Newsom and his girlfriend Channon Christian made dinner plans and then were to go to a friend’s house to watch a movie. They would never be seen alive again. Now one of their killers is eligible for parole.

When Chris went to pick Channon up at a friend’s apartment complex, they were carjacked by multiple assailants. What followed was one of the most heinous, gruesome, and senseless crimes in Tennessee history. The couple were taken to a house in East Knoxville and held against their will where they were brutally tortured and raped for hours.

The details of their torture are so graphic and heartbreaking that I won’t go into much detail beyond this: After being tortured, Christopher Newsom was killed execution style by multiple gunshots before his attackers poured gasoline on his body and set him on fire. Channon Christian had bleach poured down her throat and on her body before being wrapped in plastic bags and placed in a garbage can in the kitchen of the house—all of this while she was still alive.  Her last minutes on earth were spent slowly suffocating in a garbage can.

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2 comments:

  1. Speaking if ISIS, this is worse yet. Their punishment should have been an eye
    for an eye like in the Good Book. Twisted.

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    1. I don't know if I could perform an eye for an eye in this instance, but I'm sure I could come up with something equally fitting.

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