USA - Tennessee. A jury sentenced Lemaricus Davidson to death

A Knox County jury sentenced Lemaricus Davidson, 28, to death four times for killing Channon Christian, 21, and her boyfriend Christopher Newsom, 23, in January 2007. The case raised racial tensions and inflamed Internet bloggers because the victims were white and the defendants are black. Davidson's half-brother, Letalvis Cobbins, was convicted of killing Channon Christian, but not Christopher Newsom. Cobbins did not get the death penalty for his crimes. George Thomas and Vanessa Coleman are also set to stand trial for the killings. In all, Davidson was handed 4 death sentences for the 1st degree premeditated murder and 1st degree felony murder of Channon Christian, as well as the 1st degree premeditated murder and 1st degree felony murder of Christopher Newsom.