possibly after his sexual assault. He then decided he was going to murder her. He went around to her side of the car and yanked her out of the car by her throat. He choked the eight-year-old until she turned blue, but he could not strangle her. He then told her to walk down the road, and while he walked behind her, he pulled out a pocketknife and stabbed her in the throat. She fell to the ground, grasping at her throat, and quickly bled to death. Execution On April 19, 2000, he was executed at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee, by lethal injection. He became the first person to be executed by the state of Tennessee since 1976 when the death penalty was reinstated. Tennessee's last execution before Coe was in 1960. See also Capital punishment in Tennessee Capital punishment in the United States List of people executed in Tennessee List of people executed in the United States in 2000 References 1956 births 1979 murders in the United States 2000 deaths 20th-century American criminals 21st-century executions by Tennessee 21st-century executions of American people American murderers of children American people convicted of rape American people executed for murder Executed people from Kentucky People convicted of murder by Tennessee People executed by Tennessee by lethal injection People from Fulton County, Kentucky