STARKE, Fla. (WWSB) - More than 46 years after he kidnapped, raped and murdered a 6-year-old girl in Brevard County, Bryan Frederick Jennings was put to death by lethal injection Thursday evening at Florida State Prison.

Jennings, 66, was pronounced dead at 6:20 p.m. and became a record 16th inmate executed this year in Florida. The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected final legal attempts to halt the execution.

Jennings was convicted of murdering Rebecca Kunash on May 11, 1979, in Merritt Island. A 1986 sentencing order said Jennings in the early morning hours went to the window of the child’s bedroom and saw her asleep.

“He forcibly removed the screen, opened the window, and climbed into her bedroom,” the sentencing order by then-Circuit Judge Charles Harris said. “He put his hand

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