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.

The Mississippi Department of Corrections held a press conference at 2 p.m. to give an update.

Officials say Crawford has visited with family and with a preacher he requested.

For his last meal, he’s chosen a double cheeseburger, fries, peach cobbler and chocolate ice cream.

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

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