The state of Mississippi executed Charles Ray Crawford Wednesday for the 1993 killing of Northeast Mississippi Community College student Kristy Ray.

The Mississippi Department of Corrections declared him dead at 6:15 p.m. at the State Penitentiary.

Crawford kidnapped and raped the student from Tippah County before taking her life. She was 20. He was 26.

A jury in Lafayette County Circuit Court found him guilty of capital murder a year later. The execution came more than three decades after he was sentenced to die.