Charles Ray Crawford

Crawford

TUPELO – The highest court in the land has refused to hear the appeal of a Tippah County man who has been a 30-year-resident of Mississippi State Penitentiary’s death row.

The Supreme Court of the United States denied a writ of certiorari for Charles Ray Crawford on Monday. Crawford, 59, was sentenced to death in April 1994 for kidnapping, raping and killing a community college coed. But this appeal was for a separate rape conviction.

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