Temporarily Seeing Red
Posted by Lynnster on October 29, 2009
Taking a break from music babble for a moment here…
I’ve changed the color theme of my blogs and the sidebar of my Twitter profile this week to red in support of the families of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom, who were brutally tortured and murdered in Knoxville in January 2007. The trial of ringleader Lemaricus Davidson is going on this week in Knox County, Tennessee. Davidson was convicted by a jury on Wednesday of 35 of 38 counts, including several counts of felony first degree murder (and convicted guilty of facilitation on the three other counts).
The penalty phase of the trial is ongoing today and I expect sentencing will come tomorrow (on Friday).
Davidson is known to hate the color red, and the families and other supporters in court this week have worn red in the courtroom this week. Hundreds of followers on Twitter following the trial thanks to Tweeting Knoxville media folks have changed their sidebars to red in support; I’ve done this and taken it one step further on both blogs today.
For more information on this terrible case:
Knoxville News-Sentinel’s continuing coverage of the Christian-Newsom murders
WBIR.com – live trial coverage when court is in session
You can also follow the trial goings-on up to the minute on Twitter:
Twitter: #cntrial
Ron said
After what he did to those two poor kids, there’s not a death penalty savage enough for him.
Lynnster said
I have my issues with capital punishment and the justice system, but in this case I really just can’t do anything but agree.
I’m sorry he had a bad childhood (which was pretty much all we heard about during the penalty phase hearings yesterday), but lots of people have screwed up childhoods and don’t grow up to do anything wrong…. much less something that brutal and horrific.