Robert G Coe

Robert Coe died at the age of 44, executed by lethal injection by the State of Tennessee. ∼ Riverbend Maximum Security Institution - Nashville, Tennessee - Wednesday, April 19, 2000 Child-killer, Robert Glen Coe, 44, 1st murderer put to death in Tennesee since 1976 was executed at 1:37 a.m. by lethal injection 19 years after conviction for the killing of Cary Ann Medlin, 8, a few miles from her Greenfield, Tenn., home on Sept. 1, 1979. McKenzie, Tennessee - Saturday, April 29, 2000 About 30 family members and friends gathered in the sanctuary of a small church "to celebrate the life of Robert Glen Coe," the first inmate executed in the state in 40 years. Coe's ashes sat in a black box at the foot of the pulpit, flanked by a grade school picture of an innocent young boy with an impish grin and a treasured family photo, taken about a year earlier, of Coe hugging his siblings. On top of the box sat a child's drawing of a brightly crayon-colored rainbow, a picture sent to him in prison. Coe's remains were placed in a private family location.