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Florida Set for 16th Execution This Year: Former Marine's Fate Sealed

11/14/2025

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Bryan Frederick Jennings, a former Marine, is scheduled for execution in Florida for the 1979 murder of 6-year-old Rebecca Kunash.
This would be the 16th execution under Governor Ron DeSantis this year.
The executions this year surpass the 2014 record of eight.
The U.S. Supreme Court denied Jennings' final appeal.
Jennings' attorneys say he has been denied proper legal representation and a clemency hearing since 1988.

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Bryan Frederick Jennings, a former Marine, is scheduled for execution in Florida for the 1979 murder of 6-year-old Rebecca Kunash.
This would be the 16th execution under Governor Ron DeSantis this year.
The executions this year surpass the 2014 record of eight.
The U.S. Supreme Court denied Jennings' final appeal.
Jennings' attorneys say he has been denied proper legal representation and a clemency hearing since 1988.