Word: wanda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wanda Rivera, a store register worker hired on October 6, said she was told of the closing only after she started work. "They said they were going to place us at other stores" she said...
...HAVE BEEN 18 EXECUTIONS IN THE U.S. SO FAR this year. But none as controversial as the case of Roger Keith Coleman. Denied clemency by Governor Douglas Wilder, Coleman was placed in a Virginia electric chair last week for the 1981 rape and murder of his sister-in-law Wanda Fay McCoy. Nearly 15,000 Americans besieged the Governor's office with calls and letters opposing the execution. In the days preceding his death, Coleman's attorneys waged a frantic attempt to gain him an appeal but were refused by two courts. Coleman himself passed these final hours pleading...
WITH TWO POWERFUL JOLTS OF ELECTRICity, Roger Keith Coleman was executed last week in Virginia. But the questions about his guilt could not so easily be disposed of -- in part because his court-appointed lawyers failed to put them to rest at his trial. On the night that Wanda Fay McCoy was murdered, Coleman claimed to have been at several points around the coal-mining town of Grundy. Shouldn't his lawyers have tried to retrace his steps on that night and search out witnesses? Shouldn't they have ventured into McCoy's or Coleman's home? At the very...
...Coleman was arrested on the police theory that Wanda opened the door to the intruder. Police subsequently discovered a pry mark on the door molding, just 3 in. up from the floor, and a fingerprint. Plainly, if tests had identified the fingerprint as belonging to Coleman, the jury would have heard...
...late 1991 Grundy resident Teresa Horn signed an affidavit swearing that another man in the county had confessed to Wanda's murder. Last March, Horn voiced her charges in an interview on a Roanoke TV station; the next day she was found dead. The circumstances have yet to be explained convincingly. Over the past three weeks, four more witnesses came forward, all with stories pointing to the same man. He denies the allegations...