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