Overview
- Jennings, 66, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at 6 p.m. ET at Florida State Prison near Starke.
- Florida’s high court rejected his recent representation claim on Nov. 6, and the U.S. Supreme Court denied a final appeal on Wednesday.
- Jennings confessed to abducting, raping, and killing 6-year-old Becky Kunash in 1979 after taking her through a bedroom window in Merritt Island.
- He was reconvicted and resentenced to death in 1986 after earlier convictions from 1980 and 1982 were overturned on appeal, with additional life sentences for related crimes.
- Gov. Ron DeSantis has overseen an unprecedented pace of executions this year, with two more scheduled for Nov. 20 and Dec. 9 that, if carried out, would raise the 2025 total further.