A day after a Brevard County circuit judge rejected their arguments, attorneys for c ondemned killer Bryan F. Jennings on Wednesday asked the Florida Supreme Court to halt his scheduled Nov. 13 execution in the 1979 rape and murder of a 6-year-old girl.

The attorneys filed a notice of appealing Circuit Judge Kelly McKibben’s ruling Tuesday and asked the Supreme Court for a stay of execution.

Jennings also has another appeal pending at the Supreme Court and is fighting the execution in federal court. The motion for a stay and the other cases involve arguments that Jennings did not have legal representation for a three-year period until Gov. Ron DeSantis signed his death warrant Oct. 10.

The motion argued, in part, that Jennings’ due-process rights have been violated because his new att

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