TALLAHASSEE — Attorneys are asking a federal judge to block next month’s scheduled execution of convicted child killer Bryan Frederick Jennings, arguing Florida’s death-warrant process is “wholly perfunctory and has rendered the right of (legal) representation meaningless.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Oct. 10 signed a death warrant to execute Jennings by lethal injection on Nov. 13, setting in motion a round of legal filings.

A Brevard County circuit judge on Oct. 10 appointed attorneys to represent Jennings, who had not had legal representation since the death of his lawyer, Martin McClain, in 2022.

A lawsuit filed Wednesday by Linda McDermott, an attorney with the federal public defender’s office in the Northern District of Florida, argued that the state’s process that allowed Jennings to

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