Who Is Kosoul Chanthakoummane and charges against him?
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ordered a stay of execution on Wednesday morning and remanded his case to the Collin County trial court to be reviewed for accusations of rejected forensic science.
Kosoul Chanthakoummane was born in Illinois on 1/10/1980. He was arrested and later sentenced to death in 2006. In his life he had always worked as a truck driver and warehouse worker, he had never been in prison before.
Its execution date was set for 10 November 2021. However, the execution was rescheduled from November 10, 2021, to August 17, 2022
According to a federal court complaint, a couple visiting the model house on July 8, 2006, discovered Walker dead, stabbed 33 times, and with a bite mark on her neck.
Wikipedia: Who Is Kosoul Chanthakoummane?
On October 10, 1980, Kosoul Chanthakoummane was born in Illinois. In 2006, he was apprehended and condemned to death.
He had never been in prison before and had always worked as a truck driver and warehouse worker. It will be executed on November 10, 2021. The state of Texas condemned Kosoul Chanthakoummane to death for robbery-murder.
Court records claim that Kosoul Chanthakoummane planned to kill Sarah Walker in a model house. Police would locate the body of a woman who had been stabbed over thirty times and bitten on the neck.
#JohnRamirez has a new execution date!
TEXAS EXECUTION LIST
Carl Buntion – April 21
Melissa Lucio – April 27
Ramiro Gonzales – July 13
Kosoul Chanthakoummane – Aug 17
John Ramirez – Oct 5Silence is not an option! Pls raise your voice against the #DeathPenalty pic.twitter.com/LNAIVIgGml
— Karine Omry (@KarineOmry) April 14, 2022
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The state’s highest criminal appeal court has halted another Texas execution, granting a reprieve to a man convicted in 2007 of robbery and murder of a McKinney real estate agent.
Texas executions occur at the Walls Unit of the Huntsville State Penitentiary in Huntsville. Forty-one-year-old Kosoul is convicted of murdering 40-year-old Sarah Ann Walker on July 8, 2006, in Mckinney, Texas. For the last 14 years, Kosoul has been on death row in Texas.
Kosoul spent time in juvenile facilities growing up for robbery. He also attacked a friend, causing six fractured ribs and a concussion, in addition to other injuries. Kosoul was previously convicted of aggravated robbery and kidnapping in North Carolina, and after serving his sentence, he was paroled to Texas to live with relatives. At the time of Sarah’s murder, Kosoul was wanted for a parole violation. While in Texas, Kosoul worked as a deliveryman and a warehouseman.
On July 8, 2006, Mamie Sharpless, a real estate agent, received a call from a man claiming to be “Chan Lee” who had just moved to Texas from North Carolina. He wanted to look at a townhouse in the Craig Ranch neighborhood of McKinney, Texas. Mamie agreed to meet with the man between 11:30 am and noon later that day.
Mamie and her husband arrived at the meeting place and waited for “Chan” to arrive. A short time later, a man in a white Ford Mustang drove by and parked in front of a model home. The couple approached the car and asked the man if he was Chan, which he denied.
According to testimony at Kosoul Chanthakoummane’s trial, the man in the vehicle was Chanthakoummane. Chan never showed up.
While Mamie was showing the townhome to another potential buyer, Mamie’s husband observed Sarah Walker, another real estate agent, arrive. After Mamie finished her showing, she and her husband went to Sarah’s model home. They entered around 1:10 pm and found it “ransacked,” with a large pool of blood in the dining room and a trail of blood to the kitchen, where they found Sarah’s body.
An autopsy determined Sarah had been struck over the head several times as she attempted to defend herself. The attack was powerful enough to break her nose and fracture her teeth. Sarah received 33 stabs wounds, ten of which penetrated vital organs. Sarah also had a bite mark on her neck and she was robbed of a new Rolex watch and a ring.
DNA showed that some of the blood at the crime scene belonged to Chanthakoummane, who claimed that “old cuts” on his hands “from work” was the cause. Chanthakoummane told police he had broken down in front of the model home and entered to get a drink of water, but was unable to turn on the facet. A dentist matched the bite mark on Sarah’s neck to Chanthakoummane’s bite, although another expert rejected that conclusion.
According to the complaint, Chanthakoummane told police he went to a model home when his car broke down and that he had wounds on his hands, which might explain the blood at the site.
Don’t remain silent! The state of TX has already scheduled 5 executions for 2022 (including an innocent mother and a 77 y.o man)!
Michael Gonzales – March 8
Carl Buntion – April 21
Melissa Lucio – April 27
Ramiro Gonzales – July 13
Kosoul Chanthakoummane – Aug 17#StopExecutions pic.twitter.com/xoxHe5g70Q— Karine Omry (@KarineOmry) January 30, 2022
A White House assessment released in 2016 found that forensic bite-mark evidence was not scientifically valid.
This is the third time this year that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has stayed an execution (two of those scheduled executions were for the same man, Tilon Carter). A federal judge stayed another execution. This year, there have been four executions in the state.
