Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a death warrant to execute a man convicted of kidnapping a 6-year-old girl from her bedroom in 1979 and raping and murdering her in Brevard County.

Bryan Frederick Jennings, 66, is scheduled to be executed Nov. 13 and could be a record 16th inmate put to death by lethal injection this year in Florida. The state has carried out 13 executions and is slated to put to death Samuel Smithers on Tuesday and Norman Grim on Oct. 28.

Jennings was convicted of murdering Rebecca Kunash on May 11, 1979, in Merritt Island. A 1986 sentencing order included with documents posted Friday on the Florida Supreme Court website said Jennings in the early morning hours went to the window of the child’s bedroom and saw her asleep.

“He forcibly removed the screen, opened the w

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