Mississippi Executes Man Convicted of Raping and Killing College Student

FILE - This Aug. 3, 2017, photo provided by the Mississippi Department of Corrections shows Mississippi death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford. Mississippi Department of Corrections via AP, file

PARCHMAN, Miss.—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.