The Mississippi attorney general is requesting an execution date for a man who's been on death row for 30 years, but his lawyer says the request is premature because the inmate still intends to take an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Charles Ray Crawford, now 58, 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, but his attorneys said Monday that they’re appealing that conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court after losing a lower court ruling last week.
