DNA tests that confirm Roger Keith Coleman’s guilt bring to an end more than 20 years of questions. March 10, 1981 Wanda McCoy is raped and murdered in her Grundy home. Within weeks, police arrest ...

A turf battle over DNA evidence in the case that led to the 1992 execution of Roger Keith Coleman creates an unnecessary diversion that should not detract attention from finally settling the matter.

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WASHINGTON — Nine years after Roger Keith Coleman was put to death in Virginia’s electric chair, his legal case lives on, a test of whether the state may have executed the wrong man. A young coal ...