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- <text id=92TT1230>
- <title>
- June 01, 1992: Frantic Final Hours
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- June 01, 1992 RIO:Coming Together to Save the Earth
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 21
- NATION
- Frantic Final Hours
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- <p>A convicted killer dies amid claims of innocence and cries of
- indignation
- </p>
- <p> There have been 18 executions in the U.S. so far this year.
- But none as controversial as the case of Roger Keith Coleman.
- Denied clemency by Governor Douglas Wilder, Coleman was placed in
- a Virginia electric chair last week for the 1981 rape and murder
- of his sister-in-law Wanda Fay McCoy. Nearly 15,000 Americans
- besieged the Governor's office with calls and letters opposing
- the execution. In the days preceding his death, Coleman's
- attorneys waged a frantic attempt to gain him an appeal but were
- refused by two courts. Coleman himself passed these final hours
- pleading his case to a receptive press.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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