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Prosecutor To Seek Death Penalty Against Newsom, Christian Murder Suspect
A prosecutor will seek the death penalty for at least one of four defendants accused in a fatal carjacking of a Knoxville couple.
Posted: 6:40 PM Dec 8, 2007 |
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A prosecutor will seek the death penalty for at least one of four defendants accused in a fatal carjacking of a Knoxville couple.
Knox County District Attorney General Randy Nichols filed notice yesterday of the state's intent to seek the death penalty for Letalvis Cobbins if he is convicted.
Cobbins' attorney, Kimberly Parton, could not be reached for comment.
He is one of four defendants charged with murder in the January slaying of 21-year-old University of Tennessee student Channon Christian and her 23-year-old boyfriend, Christopher Newsom.
Prosecutors say the victims were robbed and taken at gunpoint to a house where they were beaten, tortured, raped and killed.
Nichols has not yet said whether he will seek the death penalty for the other defendants accused.
(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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The death penalty is never applied with an even hand, never. Remember the Simpson trial? I mean, BEFORE the trial began the decision was announced that even if convicted, the death penalty "would not be on the table" Funny how that works, justice? What a joke
Anything less than death for all four is justice denied.
DEATH penalty for all four of these killers... please..
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