Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The execution of a Mississippi man is slated to happen as planned after the state's governor said he had no intention to intervene.
Charles Ray Crawford, 59, is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. local time in Parchman at Mississippi State Penitentiary.
Crawford has been on death row for more than 30 years.
He was convicted and later given the death penalty for the 1993 kidnapping and fatal stabbing of 20-year-old-Kristy Ray.
Crawford took Ray from her Tippah County home to a cabin in a wooded area, where he reportedly handcuffed then raped her before stabbing the woman in the chest.
