[Dusti_]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

Lemaricus Davidson, 37, might be the most notorious name from Knox County to make the list. A jury sentenced him to death in 2009 for the carjacking, rape, torture and killings of Channon Christian, 21, and Chris Newsom, 23.

Davidson was 25 when he and four others — Letalvis Cobbins, Eric Boyd, George Thomas and Vanessa Coleman — kidnapped Christian and Newsom at gunpoint while the couple were on a date the night of Jan. 6, 2007.

They drove the couple to Davidson's rental house on Chipman Street in East Knoxville, where Christian and Newsom were held captive and tormented.

The search for the missing couple, the manhunt for their killers, the brutality of the crime and the ensuing trials — which dragged out over six years — made the case Knoxville's most infamous of the 21st century.

The racial elements — Christian and Newsom were white, their kidnappers and killers black — became a rallying cry among white separatists and other far-right groups.

Prosecutors zeroed in on Davidson, a violent felon on parole for another carjacking at the time of the killings, as the ringleader. He was the only one of the five to receive a death sentence.

Davidson's conviction almost fell apart when a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation probe revealed Richard Baumgartner, the presiding judge, had been snorting painkillers on the bench. But attorneys' efforts have failed so far to prove the judge's drug use affected Davidson's case.

there should've been some hangings. Those guys are lucky this is the 50s...They would've paid for that shit...

[woodsetton]

They abused her so badly that they tore the Frenulums that connect her gums to her lips as they orally raped her over and over. Absolute monsters.

[GrayGhost77*]

Creatures prove time & time again they have no empathy compassion or soul! Filthy animals!

[GrayGhost77*]

Fucking filthy rapist animals

[gringo1965]

Originally Posted by wally246 ↗

Death is too good for these swine!

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If it were within my power , they would have
been slowly skinned alive . And still
conscious , taken to be racked .
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[Dustjunky1]

Emmett Till is a poignant reminder of just how evil and racist whites are.
Christian and Newsom is just a murder by some random psychopaths though.
Only one group is permitted to be condemned as a whole.