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Bryan Frederick Jennings, 66, received a lethal injection on Thursday, Nov. 13

He was convicted of abducting, raping and murdering 6-year-old Becky Kunash in 1979

Jennings, the 16th person executed in Florida this year, spent the past four decades appealing his conviction despite allegedly confessing to police after his arrest

Becky Kunash was sound asleep in her bedroom when the unthinkable happened on the night of May 11, 1979.

A man broke into the 6-year-old's bedroom, snatched her out of her bed and drove off with her. She was then raped, bludgeoned and drowned in a canal, where her body would be found later that day.

A few hours later, police arrested a Marine by the name of Bryan Frederick Jennings, and now, 46 years after he ended Becky's life, the state of Florid

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