Adam Chrismer and Samantha Leming
Summary of Offense:
A jury in Jonesborough sentenced Howard Hawk Willis to die for the murders of Chickamauga teenagers, Adam and Samantha Chrismer. The couple had just gotten married before they were killed on October 6, 2002. Prosecutors presented new photos of their bodies in a sentencing hearing that made one juror ill. The jurors found that the killings met all four mitigating circumstances for the death penalty.
Willis was sentenced to death on June 21, 2010.
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