“death penalty was the only acceptable punishment” victims’ families say
From a shocked New York Times at the end of October, 2009.
There has been little coverage of the Newsom and Christian families’ outrage at how this has played out in court or how the perps have been portrayed as victims of a racist society in court; how the defense attempted to portray Shannon and Christopher as druggies, and Shannon (I’m noticing her name is spelled Channon) a prostitute. It shouldn’t matter what color you are; our courts are supposed to be concentrating on criminality; on crimes committed; whether laws have been broken and act accordingly. The focus shouldn’t be on what a victim the perp is because of the mere color of his skin. I saw somewhere that one of the fathers said “I don’t care if death row is full of black inmates. If you’re black or white, if you do the crime, you do the time.” Or something to that effect.
Isn’t it odd that no search results come up with one single blog – one single place where this is mentioned? This story fits the ever popular leftist narrative in only one way; the black perps should not face the death penalty for the horrendous crimes they committed; so think the leftist leaning lawyers, judges and activists who push interpretations of law that put society in perilous danger.
Think about this; one of the convicted perps in this string of vicious crimes, Letalvis Cobbins, was originally sent to a medium security prison for what he’d done-it was only after the families of the victims expressed outrage that they moved him to a maximum security prison.
Lemaricus Davidson is eligible for the death penalty…guilty on this laundry list of charges:
- GUILTY: First degree felony murder of Chris Newsom during perpetration of robbery of Newsom
- GUILTY: First degree felony murder of Chris Newsom during perpetration of robbery of Channon Christian
- GUILTY: First degree felony murder of Channon Christian during the perpetration of robbery of Newsom
- GUILTY: First degree felony murder of Channon Christian during perpetration of robbery of Christian
- GUILTY: First degree felony murder of Chris Newsom during perpetration of kidnapping of Newsom
- GUILTY: First degree felony murder of Chris Newsom during perpetration of kidnapping of Christian
- GUILTY: First degree felony murder of Channon Christian during perpetration of kidnapping of Newsom
- GUILTY: First degree felony murder of Channon Christian during perpetration of kidnapping of Christian
- GUILTY: First degree felony murder of Chris Newsom during perpetration of rape of Newsom
- GUILTY: First degree felony murder of Chris Newsom during perpetration of oral rape of Christian
- GUILTY: First degree felony murder of Channon Christian during perpetration of rape of Newsom
- GUILTY: First degree felony murder of Channon Christian during perpetration of oral rape of Christian
- GUILTY: First degree felony murder of Chris Newsom during perpetration of theft from Newsom
- GUILTY: First degree felony murder of Chris Newsom during perpetration of theft from Christian
- GUILTY: First degree felony murder of Channon Christian during perpetration of theft from Newsom
- GUILTY: First degree felony murder of Channon Christian during perpetration of theft from Christian
- GUILTY: Premeditated first degree murder of Chris Newsom
- GUILTY: Premeditated first degree murder of Channon Christian
- GUILTY: Especially aggravated robbery of Chris Newsom
- GUILTY: Especially aggravated robbery of Channon Christian
- GUILTY: Especially aggravated kidnapping of Chris Newsom, accomplished with deadly weapon
- GUILTY: Especially aggravated kidnapping of Chris Newsom with serious bodily injury
- GUILTY: Especially aggravated kidnapping of Channon Christian, accomplished with deadly weapon
- GUILTY: Especially aggravated kidnapping of Channon Christian with serious bodily injury
- GUILTY: Facilitation of aggravated rape of Chris Newsom by coercive anal penetration while armed with a weapon (NOT GUILTY of aggravated rape of Chris Newsom while armed with weapon)
- GUILTY: Facilitation of aggravated rape of Chris Newsom by anal penetration with bodily injury (NOT GUILTY of aggravated rape of Chris Newsom by anal penetration with bodily injury)
- GUILTY: Facilitation of aggravated rape of Chris Newsom by coercive anal penetration while aided and abetted by one or more persons (NOT GUILTY of aggravated rape of Chris Newsom by coercive anal penetration while aided and abetted)
- GUILTY: Aggravated rape of Channon Christian by coercive anal penetration while armed with weapon
- GUILTY: Aggravated rape of Channon Christian by coercive anal penetration while armed with a weapon
- GUILTY: Aggravated rape of Channon Christian by coercive vaginal penetration while armed with a weapon
- GUILTY: Aggravated arpe of Channon Christian by anal penetration with bodily injury
- GUILTY: Aggravated rape of Channon Christian by oral penetration with bodily injury
- GUILTY: Aggravated rape of Channon Christian by vaginal penetration with bodily injury
- GUILTY: Aggravated rape of Channon Christian by coercive anal penetration while aided and abetted by one or more persons
- GUILTY: Aggravated rape of Channon Christian by coercive oral penetration while aided and abetted by one or more persons
- GUILTY: Aggravated rape of Channon Christian by coercive vaginal penetration while aided and abetted by one or more persons
- GUILTY: Theft of property from Chris Newsom, valued at $500 or less.
- GUILTY: Theft of property from Channon Christian, valued at $10,000 or more but less than $60,000.
From WBIR.com
“I can not fathom when we screwed up so bad our system, that it allows what happened in that court in the last week, you saw it you know what they did,” Gary Christian said. “And my wife can’t say in a victims impact statement that they should have not been put on trial. What is up with that?”
Then Channon Christian’s father criticized the defense strategy used by David Eldridge and Doug Trant. “Can attempt to drag our children through the mud, make them into dope dealers and hookers,” Gary Christian added. “There are two trials here. I didn’t do this i didn’t start this but i am my daughter’s attorney.”
It’s as if Billy Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn and their followers are running the courts now. It’s difficult to fathom there are that many self-loathing white people out there whose white guilt is so tremendously crushing that they’re completing subverting and conflating simple laws against murder and rape based on the skin color of the perps; but we see this narrative playing out in the news over and over again like a broken record.
Back in 2003, a crime of a similar sort was committed. Kathy Boudin was released from prison when she expressed her white guilt in front of sympathetic black parole board members. In Portrait of a Progressive Terrorist at Frontpage Magazine this disturbing story was described thusly:
In her parole hearing, Boudin — a veteran of the terrorist Weather Underground — claimed that she participated in the robbery because she felt guilty for being white. She told the commissioners she believed the crime would help ‘oppressed’ black people and advance the cause of ‘civil rights’. The two black parole commissioners have not explained their rationale for releasing this self-styled revolutionary terrorist, but the transcript of Boudin’ s parole hearing strongly suggests that they believed her sob story, and agreed that Boudin’s white guilt and desire to help black people absolved her of her crimes. \
[...] In the end, the commissioners were so impressed by Boudin’s eagerness to help blacks by robbing armored cars, they excused her complicity in a crime that left three men dead and nine children without fathers.
Your article speaks much truth. If color was reversed in this case, but the facts were the same- this would be deemed a “hate crime”. The media would be ALL OVER IT. We would be saturated with every gory detail. The media and lefties make excuses and try to hide gross thugs like these. That’s why their culture continues. Lefty sympathy, welfare handouts, and free life paid for by working citizens will enable the thug life to continue. No need for real job or education. No real purpose in life. No gratification from one’s own accomplishments. They’ll continue to have babies they don’t take care of and thus more thugs in the future. What a waste that these two young, good kids with a future and family that loved them crossed paths with these nasty, useless, pieces of s##t. Oh, and who pays for the comforts Mr. Cobbins and Mr. Davidson receive in prison?? The tax dollars of the good working citizen of Tennessee- including the victim’s parents.