Mississippi executes a man convicted of raping and killing a college student

This August 3, 2017, photo provided by the Mississippi Department of Corrections shows Mississippi death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford. He was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student in 1993 and executed Wednesday. Mississippi Department of Corrections/AP/File Parchman, Mississippi AP —

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 e