ONLINE PETITION TO KEEP CHRISTIAN-NEWSOM MURDERER BEHIND BARS
An online petition already has thousands of signatures to try and keep a woman behind bars for her role in the murder of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom.
The petition to “Deny Parole To Vanessa Coleman, Offender #473393” was published Saturday evening on Change.org, according to Dan Frye who created the petition along with Hugh Newsom.
Christian and Newsom were carjacked, raped, tortured, and murdered in January of 2007. Vanessa Coleman has been behind bars since then, serving a 35-year sentence a judge handed down in February 2013 for her role in the crimes.
On Friday, the families of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom spoke about finding out Vanessa Coleman is set to appear before a parole board in October.
The Newsoms said they expected Coleman to be eligible for parole in 2017, when she would have served 30% of her 35 consecutive year sentence. But they learned this week Coleman could get 16 days per month shaved off her sentence for “good behavior.”
On the site it said the petition will be delivered to the Tennessee Board of Probation and Parole.