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PARCHMAN, Miss. — A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student in 1993 was executed Wednesday. Charles Crawford, 59, was pronounced dead at ...

Minutes after Charles Ray Crawford was put to death Wednesday evening, the Mississippi Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel said he “was executed without ever receiving the fair trial we are all ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court on Friday set an Oct. 15 execution date for the man convicted of kidnapping and killing a college student in 1993. Charles Ray Crawford, 59, has ...