HAPPY 29TH BIRTHDAY! CHANNON CHRISTIAN! (APRIL 29, 1985 TO JANUARY 7, 2007)

"So long as we live, they too shall live and love for they are a part of us as we remember them."

- Gates of Prayer

Every year on April 29, we, the comrades of Unit 1012, will wish Channon Christian a Happy birthday. For this year in 2014, she would have been 29 years old. We remember how you live and not how you die.

Channon Christian

             We will post a video of a victim impact statement from her mother, Deena Christian.

Deena Christian's victim impact statement

Uploaded on May 12, 2010

Deena Christian's victim impact statement in the trial of Vanessa Coleman.

VIDEO SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZH3f1ot6Cg

Please go these Blog Posts to learn more:

1. The Case:

http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/in-loving-memory-of-channon-christian.html

2. ‘Liberal Lies About the Death Penalty’ by Ashley Herzog

http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/ashley-herzog-in-memoriam-of-channon.html

3. UNIT 1012 WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER CHANNON CHRISTIAN AND CHRISTOPHER NEWSOM (DIED: JANUARY 7, 2007)

http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/unit-1012-will-always-remember-channon.html

4. IN LOVING MEMORY OF CHANNON CHRISTIAN AND CHRISTOPHER NEWSOM (7TH ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR MURDERS) [DIED ON JANUARY 7, 2007]

http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/in-loving-memory-of-channon-christian.html

LEIGH ROBINSON MURDERED AGAIN ON 28 APRIL 2008 IN MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA.

Some argue that it is better to let ten guilty men go free before we execute an innocent, Unit 1012 (we DO NOT support a wrongful conviction) can add on that letting the guilty live is dangerous to society..... If Leigh Robinson was executed in the 1960’s, another life would not be lost. This is the consequence for failing to execute a murderer…

            Leigh Robinson was spared the death sentence in 1968 for a murder of a woman he committed that year. Unfortunately, he was released and he murdered another woman on 28 April 2008 in Melbourne, Australia. The murder occurred forty years later after his first one. Please go to this blog post to learn more about the murder.
 

Please go to this previous blog post to read this article from his stepson who wants his own stepfather to pay with his life and also a testimony from the niece of Robinson’s first victim.

TWO WITNESSES RULE? [CHRISTIAN QUOTE FOR THE DEATH PENALTY ~ APRIL 27, 2014]

 

Gleason Leonard Archer, Jr.

QUOTE: Some speculate that God’s mandate for capital punishment is weak, because the requirement for two witnesses in such cases (Numbers 35:30; Deuteronomy 17:6) drastically reduces the application of that sanction. Such speculation is unwarranted. By wrongly isolating the Hebrew ‘ d, "witness", from its broad biblical context, some interpreters have falsely concluded that two or more "eye" witnesses are required in capital cases and in all criminal cases subject to court judgment (Deuteronomy 19:5). Did God want nearly all criminals, including murderers, to get off, scot-free, if “. . . (they) had not taken the prudent measure of committing (their) crime where two people did not happen to be watching him?" The biblical record rejects any such conclusion.

The word "witness",‘ d, has broad meaning, including, anyone with (1) " . . . pertinent knowledge concerning the crime, even though he had not actually seen it."(Lev 5:1), such as motive, opportunity, accomplices, overheard confessions, wiretaps, etc.; (2) physical evidence can also bear witness, also ‘ d (Ex 22:13), such as bloody clothing, murder weapon, DNA, fingerprints, etc.; (3) written documents may serve as evidence and witness (‘ d or ‘ dah, Jos 25:25-27), such as a confession, documents showing motive or implication, etc.; (4) monuments and memorial stones, such as gal-‘ d in Gen 31:46-49, can also bear witness. Indeed, "there is no contravention of biblical principles in allowing such testimony, even though only one actual witness may be found, or none at all." There is no biblical requirement for two, or any, "eye" witnesses in criminal cases. (Dr. Gleason L. Archer, Encyclopedia of Biblical Difficulties, Zondervan Pub., 143-145, 1982, also see the exceptional writings on John 8:11, 371-373, therein.) According to actual biblical usage, the witness and evidence requirements in capital cases in the U.S. meet or exceed all biblical standards.

AUTHOR: Gleason Leonard Archer, Jr. (May 22, 1916 – April 27, 2004) was a Biblical scholar, theologian, educator, and author. Archer's father was Gleason Archer, Sr., the founder of Suffolk University in Boston. Archer graduated in 1938 with a B.A. from Harvard University (summa cum laude in Classics) and received an LL.B. from Suffolk Law School in 1939, the same year he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar. In 1940 he received a master’s degree and in 1944 he was awarded a Ph.D. at Harvard University in Classics. Finally he received his Bachelor of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1945.

Please go to this Blog Post from Dudley Sharp to learn more.

A HOMICIDE SURVIVOR FORGIVES HER ASSAILANT (BEUNKA ADAMS EXECUTED IN TEXAS ON APRIL 26, 2012)

Summary: Along with accomplice Richard Cobb, Adams robbed a convenience store in Rusk, Texas. At the time of the robbery, Candace Driver and Nikki Dement were working in the store, and the only customer present was Kenneth Vandever. Adams and Cobb were wearing masks and after getting cash from the register, forced the two employees and the customer into a Cadillac parked in the lot and drove to a remote location. After forcing Driver and Vandever into the trunk, Adams and Cobb sexually assaulted Dement. They later made all three victims kneel on the ground, shooting all three with a shotgun. Believing all were dead, both fled the scene. Vandever died from his wounds, but Driver and Dement survived and testified against Adams and Cobb. Accomplice Cobb was convicted and sentenced to death in a separate trial eight months before Adams. Evidence tied the two, met as ninth-graders at a boot camp, to a string of robberies that happened around the same time.

QUOTE: "He asked for forgiveness and I forgive him, but he had to pay the consequences." 

AUTHOR: Nikki Ansley - She survived a rape and murder attempt by Beunka Adams.  Beunka Adams murdered Kenneth Wayne Vandever on September 2, 2002. Beunka Adams was executed by lethal injection in Texas on April 26, 2012.