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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 an aggravating factor, and Crawford's lawyers are appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court over a Sixth Amendment violation the Mississippi Supreme Court dismissed.
- Investigators found Ray's car missing and a handwritten ransom note turned over to law enforcement, while Crawford said he experienced blackouts and his 1991 assault involving a 17-year-old influenced later proceedings.
- The execution comes amid a flurry of recent U.S. executions; the Mississippi Supreme Court set the date, and Krissy Nobile said Crawford showed disappointment and resolution in a year with 37 men executed.
- The appeal cites a 2018 Supreme Court ruling, but the Mississippi Supreme Court found it untimely as Crawford seeks to overturn his sentence after three decades of advocacy 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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