TALLAHASSEE — Attorney General James Uthmeier’s office Sunday urged the Florida Supreme Court to reject arguments aimed at halting next week’s scheduled execution of Bryan Frederick Jennings in the 1979 rape and murder of a 6-year-old girl in Central Florida.

State attorneys disputed a series of arguments made by Jennings’ lawyers, including that he should have a new clemency review and that his due-process rights were violated because of a lack of legal representation in state courts over a three-year period until Gov. Ron DeSantis signed his death warrant Oct. 10.

Jennings’ lawyers also have made the legal-representation arguments in other state and federal court cases since the death warrant was signed. U.S. District Judge Mark Walker on Thursday rejected the arguments in a federal-co

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