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Mississippi executes death row inmate convicted of raping and killing a college student in 1993
CBS News ^ | October 15, 2025

Posted on 10/18/2025 10:39:30 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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 6:15 p.m. following a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.

Crawford had spent more than 30 years on death row. His execution comes several months after the execution of Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate in a year of increasing executions nationwide. There have been 37 executions this year, not including Crawford, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Crawford was convicted of abducting Kristy Ray from her parents' home in northern Mississippi's Tippah County on Jan. 29, 1993. According to court records, when Ray's mother came home, her daughter's car was gone, and a handwritten ransom note had been left on the table.

On the same day, a different ransom note, made from magazine cutouts and concerning a woman named Jennifer, was found in the attic of Crawford's former father-in-law. The note was turned over to law enforcement, who began searching for Crawford. He was arrested a day later and said he was returning from a hunting trip.

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1 posted on 10/18/2025 10:39:30 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Why the heck does it take 32 years to execute a death row inmate?


2 posted on 10/18/2025 10:41:47 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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Wheels of justice are mighty slow... A right to a speedy trial doesn’t just benefit the accused, it benefits the victim’s family too.


3 posted on 10/18/2025 10:45:47 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Agree, 27 years iof feedbag him seens too long..
If he were a Black guy, they might have done it sooner.


4 posted on 10/18/2025 10:45:52 AM PDT by Veto! (Trump is Superman)
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To: EvilCapitalist

“Why the heck does it take 32 years to execute a death row inmate?”

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Agreed. How about 32 minutes?

Judge: “The jury has unanimously found you guilty. Bailiff, escort the prisoner to the execution chamber. Dismissed! [gavel bang]


5 posted on 10/18/2025 10:47:58 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Eccl 10:2

It shouldn’t even take 32 minutes to find a rope, and a tree.


6 posted on 10/18/2025 10:49:36 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: Eccl 10:2

Sounds good.


7 posted on 10/18/2025 10:56:37 AM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: nickcarraway

Next!


8 posted on 10/18/2025 10:58:56 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: EvilCapitalist
Why the heck does it take 32 years to execute a death row inmate?

Good question.

I've been watching "Mayor of Kingstown" on Amazon lately (freakin' excellent series, BTW) and from the show it seems like Michigan executes an inmate a week.

9 posted on 10/18/2025 11:02:02 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: nickcarraway

1993 - wow, that was quick. (/sarc


10 posted on 10/18/2025 11:05:34 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: Veto!

Or not - the race issue would be coming up every time he, or she, would be scheduled for execution.


11 posted on 10/18/2025 11:07:36 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: EvilCapitalist

My solution:

365 days of appeals.
File as many as you want.
On 366th day, summary execution.
Next...


12 posted on 10/18/2025 11:15:55 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: nickcarraway

I’m an upstanding law abiding citizen.
I’m almost 70 years old.
I don’t trust our government.
Especially any law enforcement
run by Democrats.
But the Appeals system is too slow,
and looks like a jobs program for
Democrat lawyers and judges.
Convicted and sentenced to death,
Appeal must get first priority
and be done within 1 month!
That is it! court doesn’t react
in that time, sentence converts to
life without parole in the same
kind of cell and conditions that
they keep Death sentenced inmates in.
Alone and isolated, for life.
You are alive but you are
dead to the world.
That will be cheaper than our
present system.
That make you liberals happy?
They aren’t dead and if you can
exonerate them I
fully support you!
But they stay in that Cell!
Till exoneration!


13 posted on 10/18/2025 11:26:27 AM PDT by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: nickcarraway

“Justice delayed is justice denied.” - William E. Gladstone


14 posted on 10/18/2025 12:12:42 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: dfwgator

I hear you saying that with the voice of the executioner from Blazing Saddles.


15 posted on 10/18/2025 12:26:12 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: nickcarraway

“ There have been 37 executions this year, not including Crawford…”

What a weird thing to write when the author has already explained in the previous paragraph that the dude was executed. Why not just say, “this thug makes it 38 for the year”?


16 posted on 10/18/2025 12:29:35 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: EvilCapitalist

“Ah yes, the Dr. Gillespie killings.”


17 posted on 10/18/2025 12:42:49 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: nickcarraway

“There have been 37 executions this year,”

It’s a start.


18 posted on 10/18/2025 1:30:42 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Look up Guesppi Zangara
Tried to assassinate FDR
only took 19 days for him to ride the lightning


19 posted on 10/19/2025 1:28:10 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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