JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - The Mississippi Supreme Court set an execution date for a death row inmate.

According to court documents, the execution date for Charles Ray Crawford as been set for October 15, 2025. The court denied Crawford's post-conviction appeal.

Crawford was sentenced to death in the 1993 kidnapping and killing of a community college student, 20-year-old Kristy Ray. Jurors in his 1994 trial cited a past rape conviction as an aggravating circumstance when they sentenced Crawford.

Crawford was arrested the day after Ray was abducted from her parents’ home and stabbed to death in northern Mississippi’s Tippah County. Crawford told officers he had blacked out and did not recall killing her.

At the time of that arrest, Crawford was days away from his scheduled trial on a charg

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