Channon Christian, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American murder victim
Date of Birth: 29-Apr-1985
Place of Birth: Nacogdoches, Texas, United States
Date of Death: 06-Jan-2007
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Channon Christian
- Channon Gail Christian, age 21, and Hugh Christopher Newsom, Jr., age 23, were from Knoxville, Tennessee.
- They were kidnapped on the evening of January 6, 2007, when Christian's vehicle was carjacked, and taken to a rental house, where both of them were raped, tortured, and murdered.
- Four males and one female were arrested, charged, and convicted in the case.
- The grand jury had indicted four of the suspects on counts of capital murder, robbery, kidnapping, rape, and theft, while Eric Boyd was indicted in 2018 on federal charges of carjacking, but also indicted for theft, rape, and murder. Four of the five defendants (Eric D.
- Boyd, Letalvis D.
- Cobbins, Lemaricus Davidson, and George Thomas) had multiple prior felony convictions.
- After a jury trial, Davidson was convicted and sentenced to death by lethal injection.
- Cobbins and Thomas were convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
- Vanessa Coleman was convicted and sentenced to life in prison with possibility of parole for facilitating the crimes.
- Eric Dewayne Boyd was convicted at the federal level and sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for being an accessory after the fact to carjacking, later being indicted in 2018 on state-level charges in the same case more than a decade later.All of the state convictions had been initially set aside because of misconduct by the presiding judge, who has since been disbarred.
- Retrials were originally slated for the summer and fall of 2012.
- The orders for retrials of Davidson and Cobbins were subsequently overturned by the Tennessee State Supreme Court, and their convictions and sentences stand.
- The Coleman and Thomas retrials resulted in convictions, but with a reduced sentence for Coleman and the same sentence for Thomas.
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