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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Why the heck does it take 32 years to execute a death row inmate?
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.
Agree, 27 years iof feedbag him seens too long..
If he were a Black guy, they might have done it sooner.
“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]
It shouldn’t even take 32 minutes to find a rope, and a tree.
Sounds good.
Next!
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.
1993 - wow, that was quick. (/sarc
Or not - the race issue would be coming up every time he, or she, would be scheduled for execution.
My solution:
365 days of appeals.
File as many as you want.
On 366th day, summary execution.
Next...
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!
“Justice delayed is justice denied.” - William E. Gladstone
I hear you saying that with the voice of the executioner from Blazing Saddles.
“ 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”?
“Ah yes, the Dr. Gillespie killings.”
“There have been 37 executions this year,”
It’s a start.
Look up Guesppi Zangara
Tried to assassinate FDR
only took 19 days for him to ride the lightning
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