Jury still deciding sentence of Sarah Anne Walker killer
From today’s Dallas Morning News:
Both the prosecution and defense agreed that Kosoul Chanthakoummane killed a real estate saleswoman in a model home last year. So there were no gasps or emotional outbursts Wednesday when a Collin County jury found him guilty of capital murder after deliberating for 30 minutes.
Today, that jury will begin considering the case’s main point of contention: whether Mr. Chanthakoummane should spend the rest of his life in prison or receive the death penalty for fatally stabbing, beating and biting Sarah Walker and then stealing her jewelry in July 2006.
“I think the proof of a robbery was circumstantial, but we’re not surprised by the jury’s verdict,” defense attorney Steve Miears said outside the courtroom. “This case is about what the appropriate response is to the murder of Sarah Walker.”
There are a couple interesting details as you read the whole article. The defense never contested whether or not Kosoul Chanthakoummane was guilty. There whole case was “He did it. Just stick him in jail forever”.
They used the story of Cain and Abel as an argument. Cain killed Abel. God busted him on it. Cain denied it. God banished him from Eden. I don’t see how that has anything to do with life in prison, but whatever.
