After Charles Crawford was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student, he was ...

It was Mississippi’s second execution of the year and the third in the U.S. this week, following executions Tuesday in ...

Mississippi executed Charles Ray Crawford after more than 30 years on death row for the 1993 kidnapping, rape and murder of college student Kristy Ray.

The Democratic appointees dissented from the majority’s refusal to halt the execution of Charles Crawford, who, they said, ...

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A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student in 1993 was executed ...

With Crawford’s execution, that leaves the current makeup of Mississippi’s death row like this: 35 inmates, consisting of 34 ...

Victims of the inmates include a family of four, a college student kidnapped from her bedroom, and a state trooper who was ...

Crawford was arrested on Jan. 30, 1993, a day after Ray was kidnapped from her parents' home and stabbed to death in Tippah ...

Charles Ray Crawford, 59, was executed Wednesday night by lethal injection after Mississippi's governor said he had no intention to intervene in the case.