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- THE WEEK, Page 21NATIONFrantic Final Hours
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- A convicted killer dies amid claims of innocence and cries of
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- 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.
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