Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Mississippi on Wednesday executed its second death row inmate of the year, putting a 59-year-old man to death by lethal injection after the state's governor said he had no intention to intervene.
Charles Ray Crawford was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. CDT in Parchman at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, Mississippi Department of Corrections said.
Crawford was on death row for 31 years. Richard Jordan, 79, who was initially sentenced to death 49 years ago, was executed on June 25 in Mississippi, the state's first executed inmate of 2025.
For Crawford, all legal motions had failed, including an emergency filing with the state Supreme Court. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal.
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