JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - With just hours to go before he’s set to be executed for the 1993 rape and murder of a Tippah County 20-year-old, Charles Ray Crawford is again seeking a stay.

Crawford is slated to be executed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, he filed an emergency motion for a stay of execution with the Mississippi Supreme Court, citing the state’s response to a motion he filed in U.S. Supreme Court.

The motions center around the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in McCoy v. Louisiana .

According to Crawford’s attorneys, the high court ruled that defendants have the right to decide whether to allow their trial attorneys to concede guilt on their behalf.

The ruling was handed down in 2018, some 25 years after he was convicted for kidnapping, raping, and mur

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