Killer sentenced to electric chair
NZPA-Reuter ’< Memphis, . ' : .Tennessee Robert Coe, convicted of the kidnap, rape and m trder of an 8-year-old girl who allegedly told him, “God loves you” shortly before she died, has been sentenced by a jury to die in the electric chair. Judge William Williams scheduled the execution for September 1, but an automatic appeals process begins on March 26. Coe also was sentenced to two life terms for convictions of rape and kidnapping. Coe, aged 25, was con-
victfed “on* -Thursday 1 , ’6f--the murderi of Cary Ann Medlin, aged 8, on- September : 1, 1979. : .r As the sentence was read Coe’s- mother, Annie Belle Bariow, broke into muffled sobs. The other sons seated with her on the first row of the spectators’ section put their arms around her. Coe turned around to his family, put a finger to his mouth and whispered,. “I’m sorry.” Two rows back, Charlotte Stout, Cary Ann Medlin’s mother, covered her mouth as tears rolled down her cheeks.
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Press, 2 March 1981, Page 9
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