Bryan Frederick Jennings, convicted over rape and murder of young girl in 1979, given three-drug lethal injection<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A man found guilty in the 1979 rape and murder of a six-year-old girl was executed in Florida<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bryan Frederick Jennings was pronounced dead at 6.20pm local time after being administered a three-drug lethal injection. Jennings was sentenced to death for the killing of Rebecca Kunash, whom he drowned in a canal, according to reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jennings said \u201cno\u201d after being asked whether he had a final statement. Kunash\u2019s relatives did not comment publicly following Jennings\u2019 execution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe execution took place without incident. There were no complications,\u201d Jordan Kirkland, Florida department of corrections spokesperson, said, per the Associated Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Florida governor Ron DeSantis has authorized more executions in a single year than any other other governor there after the US reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Two more executions are scheduled in Florida this year. If they go forward, Florida will have seen 18 death penalty executions this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere\u2019s a saying: justice delayed is justice denied,\u201d DeSantis said earlier this month in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He added: \u201cWe\u2019re doing it to be able to bring justice to the victims\u2019 families and I think it\u2019s important. I\u2019ve had people, you know, sometimes they\u2019ll come to the office after and you can just see after decades the weight that\u2019s kind of been lifted \u2026 They never fully had closure on, and these are really horrific crimes that are happening, so that\u2019s really why we\u2019re doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jennings\u2019 execution was among three scheduled in the US just this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n