Suspects plead not guilty to killing couple on date

CNN ^ | 19 Jan 07 | AP

[KantianBurke]

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- Two suspects in a case in which a young couple out for a date were carjacked and killed pleaded not guilty in federal court as prosecutors described their long criminal history.

Lemaricus Davidson, 25, and Eric Boyd, 34, were arraigned separately. Davidson was charged with carjacking and firearms charges, and Boyd with being an accessory after the fact to the carjacking.

Family members of victims Channon Christian, a 21-year-old University of Tennessee student, and her boyfriend Christopher Newsom, 23, wept as details of the carjacking and killings less than two weeks ago were recounted.

The couple was last seen on a date January 6. Newsom's shot and burned body was found January 7 along some railroad tracks. The body of Christian, who had been raped, was found in a trash can in Davidson's rented house two days later, two blocks away.

[KantianBurke]

Pic of the deceased couple on the link. So sad.

[raybbr]

Sad is right.

[Apercu]

Concealed carry. Better to die fighting to live than on your knees.

[Jeffrey_D.]

Hang Them..........with a long rope and drop !!!!

They'll lose their heads.

[SmithL]

A little history: Marshal: Man shot, burned; woman raped

[goldstategop]

Real sweethearts - prime candidates for my favorite execution method - being buried alive.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[mtbopfuyn]

How horrible.

[KantianBurke]

"Investigators believe Channon Christian was held hostage and raped repeatedly for several days before being killed, a federal marshal said today."

This bit of info from ur link - wasn't in mine. Just terrible.

[Deguello]

Multiple crime scenes.

[JOAT]

Wiping the smug looks off these two faces with a tire iron would be a pleasure:

Letalvis Cobbins

Lemaricus Davidson

[flashbunny]

too kind a fate for them.

[Larry Lucido]

Thanks for the ping.

[festus]

Not so many years ago in this nation they'd already have been hung.

Sad how things have deteriorated.

[Rockpile]

Where are the words "racist hate crime" in this account? Did I miss them?

[AnnaZ]

Not so many years ago in this nation they'd already have been hung.

Sad how things have deteriorated.

Please... they still do need a trial, remember? (Hoping you don't mean back to the lynching years...)

Which is not to say that they don't deserve the death penalty, swiftly, after the guilty verdict... (that second suspect looks terrifyingly cold-blooded).

[festus]

Please... they still do need a trial, remember? (Hoping you don't mean back to the lynching years...)

I'm referring to the trial in the morning and the hanging in the afternoon.

If we'd execute rapists, murders, car theives, and burglars these days with speed and effeciency the nation would be a much better place to live.

[ladyjane]

Nobody wants to talk about black on white crime.

Nobody wants to talk about black racism.

Nobody wants to talk about the rate of black crime.

Why?

[aimhigh]

Nobody wants to talk about the rate of black crime. Why?

Black votes

[angeliquemb9]

I’m curious — someone posted about this topic on the News/Activism forum, just today, and the entire thread disappeared. Why don’t we want people to hear about this??

[grey_whiskers]

If we'd execute rapists, murders, car thieves, and burglars these days with speed and efficiency the nation would be a much better place to live.

Tell that to the Duke Lacrosse Team. Prosecutors are too powerful for me to have confidence in this approach just yet.

(Although in principle I agree...)

NO cheers (on account of the victims).