Bryan Jennings was executed by lethal injection for the murder of 6-year-old Becky Kunash, a gregarious first-grader who was beaten, raped and drowned

A Florida man convicted of kidnapping a 6-year-old girl from her bedroom and drowning her in a canal more than 40 years ago was put to death on Thursday night. Bryan Jennings, 66, was declared dead shortly after 6:20 p.

So far this year, Florida has put three times the number of death row inmates to death than the next state, with more to come.

Bryan Jennings waited 46 years for execution. Victims’ families waited too. Florida’s death penalty doesn’t deliver justice—it delays it.