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Mississippi is set to execute a man convicted of raping and killing a college student
Charles Crawford, on death row for over 30 years, is executed after failed appeals citing Sixth Amendment violations, amid a rise to 37 executions nationwide in 2025.
- Wednesday evening, Charles Crawford, 59, is set to be executed at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman for abducting Kristy Ray on Jan. 29, 1993.
- Jurors considered a prior rape conviction as an aggravating circumstance paving the way for a death sentence, and Crawford's lawyers are appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court claiming a Sixth Amendment violation dismissed by the Mississippi Supreme Court.
- Investigators say Ray's car was gone and a handwritten ransom note was turned over to law enforcement, triggering a search and arrest; Crawford said he blacked out and did not recall the attacks or the 1991 assault involving a 17-year-old.
- The execution comes amid a flurry of recent U.S. executions as the planned lethal injection would be the third in two days, with 37 men executed this year; Krissy Nobile said Crawford expressed disappointment and resolution.
- The appeal cites a 2018 Supreme Court ruling, but the Mississippi Supreme Court rejected it as untimely; Crawford has spent more than three decades seeking to overturn his sentence while advocating for fellow inmates.
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Mississippi is set to execute a man convicted of raping and killing a college student
A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student is set to be executed Wednesday evening at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.
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