Jackson, Miss. (AP) -Mismisip’s husband, convicted of kidnapping, rape and murder of a 20-year-old College of Community College, will be carried out on Wednesday night at Mississippi State Prison.
Charles Crawford, 59, died for over 30 years. A planned deadly injection will occur several months after the longest execution of the Mississippi Directional Prisoner was carried out through the death penalty throughout the country.
Crawford was convicted of kidnapping Kristy Ray from his parents’ home in the North Mississippi Tippaho County in 1993. January 29th. According to the court, when Ray’s mother returned home, her daughter’s car was gone and a hand was left on the table.
On the same day, a woman named Jennifer, cut out of magazines and related to a woman named, was found a different ransom inscription that was found in the attic of the former Crawford’s mother -in -law. The inscription was handed over to law enforcement that began to look for Crawford. He was arrested after a day and said he was back from the hunting trip.
He later told the authorities that he had been black and did not remember killing Ray.
During the detention, Crawford was a few days after going to court for a separate attack on the attack. It came from 1991. The attack on Crawford was accused of raping a 17-year-old girl and beating her friend with a hammer.
Despite his claim that he had suffered an electricity supply and did not remember that he did not adapt to rape or hammer attack, Crawford was found guilty of both accusations in two separate trials.
His previous belief in rape was considered to be “aggravating circumstances” to the jurors to the murder of Crawford’s capital for Ray’s murder, preparing his way for his death.
In the last three decades, Crawford has unsuccessfully attempted to eliminate his death penalty.
His lawyers are currently appealing to the US Supreme Court, claiming that Crawford should be given a new trial. Sixth amendment law violated in the trial.
The appeal alleges that Crawford’s lawyers admitted his guilt of the capital’s murder in court and carried out the defense of madness despite the repeated contradictions of Crawford. This argument is based on 2018. By the Supreme Court ruling, which ordered a new trial for the death penalty and found that the criminal accused’s lawyer could not ignore the client’s desire in court to maintain innocence.
“It looks like he didn’t even get a chance to have innocent or guilty affairs, because his lawyer just abolished his wishes from the outset,” said Krissy Nobile, director of Mississippi capital after Crawford.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi rejected the argument in September, writing that Crawford was supposed to appeal faster and failed to make appropriate reasoning why 2018 The Supreme Court decision should be retroactively.
After the Mississippi Supreme Court set its date of execution in September, Nobile said Crawford had expressed both frustration and resolution.
“He believes in God very deeply and trusts God,” Nobile said. “He wants to be the best person he can be with at a time when he left.”
Nobile described Crawford as a respected, uplifting presence. She said he works inside prison and advocates other prisoners who can fight mental health or need medical attention.
Associated Press tried to contact Ray relatives several times but did not receive an answer. Crawford also did not return the requests to comment.
The planned deadly injection should have been the third in two days in the US after the death penalty on Tuesday in Florida and Missouri. A total of 37 men died this year in the US.
In Florida, Samuel Lee Smithers, 72, was killed in 1996. The murder of two women whose bodies were found in a rural pond. In the Missouri Lance Shockley, the death penalty for the deadly shooting from the State Squad was executed.