Robert Glen Coe [SEP] convicted of
Robert Glen Coe
Robert Glen Coe (April 15, 1956 – April 19, 2000), born in Hickman, Kentucky, was convicted of the 1979 rape and murder of eight-year-old Cary Ann Medlin, and later executed for the crime.
Kidnapping and murder.
On September 1, 1979, Cary Ann Medlin and her stepbrother were riding their bicycles in the neighborhood near their home in Greenfield, Tennessee. Robert Coe pulled up next to them and began to talk to them, acting as if
Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee, by lethal injection. He became the first person to be executed by the State of Tennessee since 1976 when the death penalty was reinstated. Tennessee's last execution before Coe was in 1960.
See also.
- Capital punishment in Tennessee
- Capital punishment in the United States
- List of people executed in Tennessee
General references.
- TN Executions. "Tennessee Department of Correction". Retrieved on 2007-08-17.
- Robert Glen Coe. "