Change.org:
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.
The five people
responsible for these heinous crimes are: Lemaricus Davidson, Letalvis Cobbins,
George Thomas, Vanessa Coleman and Eric Boyd. Boyd was given 18 years and the
others will likely remain behind bars for the rest of their lives but
incredibly, Vanessa Coleman had her sentence reduced by a third
after a retrial and is set to go before the Tennessee Board of Paroles in early
December, 2014.
Vanessa Coleman
went into prison with a 35 year sentence. However, due to prison overcrowding
she has to serve only 30% of her sentence before being eligible for a parole
hearing. In addition to her sentence being effectively reduced by 70% she has
been accumulating additional time toward an early release, up to a possible 192
days per year for good behavior.
During the course
of Coleman's trial evidence was presented from her diary entry dated 3 days
after the murder. For her part in the torture, rape, and murders she wrote:
“I’ve had one HELL OF AN ADVENTURE since I’ve been in the big TN. It’s a crazy
world these days! But I love the fun adventures and lessons that I’ve learned.
Its going to be a long interesting year! Ha! Ha!”
Please
sign this petition and help the families of Christopher Newsom and Channon
Christian keep Vanessa Coleman, Offender #473393 in prison for as long as
possible.
The race hustlers like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the NAACP, Eric Holder and Marc Lamont Hill, et al, who don't believe in personal responsibility and believe that due to racism black people should always get free passes when they commit crimes, will surely want to see Vanessa Coleman freed, but you can make a difference so that doesn't happen anytime soon by signing the petition.