Massacre of Glencoe Massacre of Glencoe The Massacre of Glencoe () took place in Glen Coe in the Highlands of Scotland on 13 February 1692, following the Jacobite uprising of 1689-92. An estimated thirty-eight members and associates of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe were killed by government forces billeted with them, with others later alleged to have died of exposure, on the grounds they had not been prompt in pledging allegiance to the new monarchs, William III of England and II of Scotland and Mary II. In March 1689, James II of England and VII of Scotland landed in Ireland in an attempt to
Robert Glen Coe grasping at her throat, but quickly bled to death. 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. Robert Glen Coe Robert Glen Coe (April 15, 1956 – April 19, 2000), born in Hickman, Kentucky, was convicted of the 1979 rape and murder of eight-year-old Cary Ann Medlin, and later executed for the crime. On September 1, 1979, Cary Ann Medlin