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Roger Keith Coleman (November 1, 1958 – May 20, 1992) was an American convicted murderer and rapist who was executed on May 20, 1992, for the rape and murder of his 19-year-old sister-in-law, Wanda Faye McCoy, at her home in Grundy, Virginia on the night of March 10, 1981. A lifelong resident of Grundy, Coleman had worked as a coal miner.
Jan 5, 2021 · Posthumous DNA testing proved what Roger Keith Coleman repeatedly denied—that the Virginia man raped and murdered his sister-in-law in 1981.
May 21, 1992 · Roger Keith Coleman, the convicted Virginia murderer who had insisted he was innocent and who had won many supporters during his last months, was executed in the electric chair Wednesday...
Jan 12, 2006 · The tests, ordered by the governor earlier this month, prove Roger Keith Coleman was guilty of the 1981 rape and murder of his sister-in-law, Gov. Mark R. Warner said.
May 21, 1992 · Roger Keith Coleman, a trobubled coal town loner whose claims of innocence focused international attention on the death penalty, was executed late tonight by two jolts of current in Virginia's...
Police quickly focused on her brother-in-law, Roger Keith Coleman, a white coal miner who'd been jailed once for attempted rape. Coleman was tried, convicted and sentenced to death.
Jan 13, 2006 · New DNA testing has confirmed that the state of Virginia did not execute the wrong man back in 1992. Roger Keith Coleman went to the electric chair protesting his innocence.
May 18, 1992 · Police questioned all three and quickly decided on their man: Roger Keith Coleman, then 22, a coal miner married to Wanda’s younger sister.
Jan 13, 2006 · Thirteen years after Roger K. Coleman went to the electric chair declaring, ''An innocent man is being murdered tonight,'' a new DNA test has found that he was almost certainly the source of...
Mar 18, 2018 · GRUNDY, Va. (AP) — On March 10, 1981 — 37 years ago Saturday — Roger Keith Coleman of Grundy, Virginia, raped and murdered his sister-in-law, Wanda McCoy. He was found guilty and sentenced to death, but denied the crime.
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