6:00 PM Nashville. Reports are that U S Supreme Ct rejects Coe requests. execution is in less than 7 hrs. Coe has now had last meal. Lawyers are now arguing before local judge that execution violates local law and regulatory guidelines. ----- Original Message ----- From: Carl R Coe <CarlRCoe@compuserve.com> To: <COE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 4:35 PM Subject: [COE-L] Coe Execution > The Nashville Tennessean, Sunday, 4/16/00 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > ----- > > COE LAWYERS HOLD OUT HOPE > > Robert Glen Coe is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 1 a.m. > Wednesday at Riverbend prison for murdering 8-year-old Cary Ann Medlin in > 1979. > > That would make him the first prisoner executed in Tennessee since 1960. > > Coe's lawyers are still hoping the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals or the > U.S. Supreme Court will stay Coe's execution and order further hearings on > whether he is mentally competent to be executed. > > Coe, who marked his 44th birthday yesterday, has received three stays of > execution from federal courts in the past month, but legal experts say the > chance of further delays is slim. > __________________________________________ > > Robert Glen Coe was born April 15, 1956, in Henry County, TN, fifth child > of Willie Monroe and Annie Belle (Knight) Coe. His great grandfather > William Glen Coe, who was born in 1873 in Wayne County, KY, moved to Henry > County about 1897 and was killed there about 1900 while breaking horses. > He married September 7, 1892, at the Toler home in Wayne County, Mary > Elizabeth Toler, born September 24, 1876, died November 20, 1962, at Paris, > TN, daughter of King and S. Toler. Burial was at Bevil Cemetery, Paris. > > The family descends from Samuel and Elvira (Davis) Coe, who were married > May 11, 1826, in Wayne County, KY. Samuel Coe, who was born in 1793 in > North Carolina or Georgia, first appears on record in Wayne County, Octobe r > 11, 1818, when he was named as an heir of Rachel Kiggins. Elisha Franklin, > Elizabeth Coe and Nancy Kiggins were also named as heirs. Nancy Kiggins, > who was born Janaury 10, 1802, in North Carolina, married December 31, > 1818, in Wayne County, KY, Joseph Henry Hamilton, who was born in Garrard > County, KY, son of Charles and Hannah (Henry) Hamilton. They named a son > Samuel Coe Hamilton. > > Samuel Coe appears in Wayne County tax records November 21, 1832, when it > was noted that he had "Removed to Pulaski County, Ky." By 1840 he had > returned to Wayne County and appears there on the census that year. He > died after 1860. He and Elvira Davis were the parents of eleven children. > William Glen Coe was the oldest son of their youngest son Joshua Coe, who > was born in 1847 in Wayne County. > > Carl Robert Coe > Marysville, OH 43040-9012 > > > ==== COE Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the mail-mode list, send a message to COE-L-request@rootsweb.com Type the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. > >