By CURT ANDERSON

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing a 6-year-old girl abducted from her bedroom decades ago was put to death Thursday evening in a record 16th execution in Florida this year.

Bryan Frederick Jennings, 66, was pronounced dead at 6:20 p.m. following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke, the office of Gov. Ron DeSantis said. Jennings drew the death penalty for the 1979 murder of Rebecca Kunash.

The execution of the ex-Marine was one of three scheduled this week in the U.S., though Oklahoma’s governor spared the life of a man just before a planned lethal injection Thursday. On Friday, inmate Stephen Bryant is set to be executed by firing squad in South Carolina for a five-day killing spree decades ago.

Court records show Jennings was

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