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Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch is requesting an execution date for Charles Ray Crawford, convicted in 1994 for kidnapping, rape, and murder.

Crawford's previous appeals, arguing ineffective counsel, were denied by state and federal courts.

Another Mississippi death row inmate, Richard Gerald Jordan, is scheduled for execution on June 25th and is seeking an emergency stay.

For the second time in less than a year, Attorney General Lynn Fitch's office is seeking an execution date for a man who has been on Mississippi's death row for over 30 years.

Fitch filed the motion on Monday, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied Charles Ray Crawford's petition for a writ of certiorari, or a review of a lower court's ruling in his case.

Fitch is again asking the state

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