A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student was put to death ...

Charles Ray Crawford is set to be executed at 6 p.m., Oct. 15, after spending more than 30 years on death row for the rape ...

Marc McClure, regional superintendent of the Mississippi Department of Corrections’ northern region, told the Greenville ...

Charles Ray Crawford, 59, was executed Wednesday night by lethal injection after Mississippi's governor said he had no ...

It was Mississippi’s second execution of the year and the third in the U.S. this week, following executions Tuesday in ...

The Mississippi Department of Corrections will review more than two dozen unprosecuted homicides inside its prisons, as well ...

Compounding the staffing problems is the growing prison population. Since December 2021, the number of state prisoners has increased from about 16,800 to 19,300, returning to pre-pandemic levels. Cain ...

Advocates of Charles Crawford call for Mississippi to stop plans to execute the 59-year-old inmate on death row.

PARCHMAN, Miss. (WTVA) — The execution of Charles Ray Crawford is set for Wednesday evening. His execution is set for 6:00 at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Gov. Tate Reeves announced ...

The execution will occur on October 15, 2025, at 6 p.m. on the grounds of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. A ...

A new federal lawsuit says Mississippi's Parchman prison is a violent place where inmates live in “abhorrent conditions” and their medical needs are ignored. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday on behalf of ...

A Mississippi Prison Murder Indictment Was Forgotten for 3 Years — Until a Reporter Called John Lowe was beaten to death in a prison shower in 2021, but the murder suspect was not served the ...