Supreme Court Denies Hearing For Death Row Inmate

JACKSON (WCBI) – A Tippah County man currently on death row will not get the chance to make another appeal to the Mississippi Supreme Court.

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The court Thursday denied Charles Ray Crawford’s request for a rehearing on an appeal denied in August.  Crawford had argued that he suffered numerous head injuries that made him legally retarded and exempt from execution.   Crawford was convicted for the 1993  rape and murder of a 20 year old Northeast Mississippi Community College student