Florida executes Brevard County killer 46 years after the crime

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Jennings declined to make a final statement before the lethal-injection process, which involves three drugs, started at 6:02 p.m. Thursday.
46% : The modern era represents the period since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, after a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court opinion halted it.
40% : In part, that stemmed from contentions Jennings' new attorneys did not have adequate time to develop a case to try to prevent the execution after the death warrant was signed.
36% : STARKE, Fla. (WWSB) - More than 46 years after he kidnapped, raped and murdered a 6-year-old girl in Brevard County, Bryan Frederick Jennings was put to death by lethal injection Thursday evening at Florida State Prison.
36% : Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant for Jennings on Oct. 10, touching off a flurry of legal activity in state and federal courts as the inmate's attorneys sought to stop the execution.
28% : The attorneys focused heavily on his lack of legal representation in state courts over a three-year period until DeSantis signed the death warrant.
26% : DeSantis also has signed death warrants for Richard Barry Randolph to be executed Nov. 20 in the 1988 murder of a Putnam County convenience-store manager and for Mark Allen Geralds to be executed Dec. 9 in the 1989 murder of a Bay County woman.

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