Florida execution may set new record for time on death row for an inmate that is executed...39 years!

[Meathead]

If there was no doubt about his guilt, then why did it take three trials?

Bleeding-heart lawyers.

 

[odanny]

On November 13, 2025, 66-year-old Bryan Frederick Jennings was put to death by lethal injection at the Florida State Prison. The official time of death was 6:20 pm. Prior to his execution, Jennings ordered a last meal of one cheeseburger, fries, and a soda. He declined to give a final statement.

Jennings was the 16th death row prisoner from Florida to be executed in the state in 2025. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who became the governor that authorised the most number of executions in a year (breaking the previous record of eight in 2014), earlier defended the increased spate of executions, stating that "justice delayed is justice denied", on the account that most of the convicts were found guilty for "horrific" murders, and justice was to be served for the victims and their families after long decades of waiting for closure

 

[whitehall]

Selective concern by mostly emotion based lefties. There was literally a party outside the prison when Florida executed Ted Bundy.

 

[Natural Citizen]

I was reading about this incident some place else the other day.

It was a tough read, the way he killed that little girl.

Somebody should have put a slug in his nawgin a long time ago...

 

[HikerGuy83]

A 6-year-old girl was asleep in bed when she was kidnapped. Now her killer's time is up.

Bryan Jennings, a former Marine, raped and killed 6-year-old Becky Kunash in 1979. Now 46 years later, he's being executed.

www.usatoday.com

Bryan Jennings raped and killed a 6 year old girl 46 years ago. It took three trials finding him guilty and seven years to get his conviction to withstand appeals, but 39 years after his third and final conviction he is finally going to be executed today, Thursday November 13th 2025.

There is no doubt that he is the child's killer, but still managed to file appeal after appeal and delay his execution for 39 years.

The previous record length of time I could find was 36 years on death row for an inmate that was finally executed.

I can't believe someone who is obviously guilty of the crime (he admitted it to the police, but refused to plead guilty) could delay their execution for so long.

He even outlived the girl's father....That's not justice....I hope it hurts.

Murder of Rebecca Kunash - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Find something that takes about two days to do him in.

Let him "think about it" a while.

 

[HikerGuy83]

I was reading about this incident some place else the other day.

It was a tough read, the way he killed that little girl.

Somebody should have put a slug in his nawgin a long time ago...

A slug would be too good for him.

Drawn and quartered at a minimum.

 

[BackAgain]

I don't think executing people is justice. It's revenge.

My argument against the DP has always been, "What if you got the wrong guy?" You can't fix it afterwards.

Revenge isn’t necessarily inconsistent with justice.

In fact, society itself takes over the matter to prevent individuals from basically going at each other in cycles of revenge and counter revenge.

And in this case, as the OP noted quite clearly, there is zero doubt.

 

[BackAgain]

Revenge isn’t necessarily inconsistent with justice.

In fact, society itself takes over the matter to prevent individuals from basically going at each other in cycles of revenge and counter revenge.

And in the case of Hassan as the post noted quite clearly, there is zero doubt.

 

[whitehall]

Years ago an execution was an event. The "In Cold Blood" Kansas killers were hanged, Utah's killer Gary Gilmore thought the judicial system would blink when he chose death by firing squad but the system didn't blink. Ted Bundy might have been the last condemned Florida convict to be executed in the electric chair. Today's lethal injection executions are no more painful than an junky overdose.

 

[JoeB131]

Revenge isn’t necessarily inconsistent with justice.

In fact, society itself takes over the matter to prevent individuals from basically going at each other in cycles of revenge and counter revenge.

And in this case, as the OP noted quite clearly, there is zero doubt.

We've released 200 people from death row who were found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, until there was.

There are also 22 cases where people were executed, where there is some serious doubt now if they did it.

 

[JoeB131]

Years ago an execution was an event. The "In Cold Blood" Kansas killers were hanged, Utah's killer Gary Gilmore thought the judicial system would blink when he chose death by firing squad but the system didn't blink. Ted Bundy might have been the last condemned Florida convict to be executed in the electric chair. Today's lethal injection executions are no more painful than an junky overdose.

Except for the guys who are left gasping for breathe for half an hour because they miscalculated where the vein was, or because the drugs didn't act as advertised.

 

[Meathead]

Except for the guys who are left gasping for breathe for half an hour because they miscalculated where the vein was, or because the drugs didn't act as advertised.

Who cares? They're lived too many years anyway. I like the way the Russians did it. One bullet to the back of the head after a single appeal was denied.

 

[BackAgain]

We've released 200 people from death row who were found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, until there was.

There are also 22 cases where people were executed, where there is some serious doubt now if they did it.

Holy crap. It’s almost like the best system still isn’t perfect. What’s up with those humans? Am I right?

You’ll notice the difference (maybe) between those awful cases with their tragic results and the case of guys whose guilt is beyond all doubt, like the one where the defendant did it, was seen doing it on tape and who confessed.

 

[JoeB131]

Holy crap. It’s almost like the best system still isn’t perfect. What’s up with those humans? Am I right?

You’ll notice the difference (maybe) between those awful cases with their tragic results and the case of guys whose guilt is beyond all doubt, like the one where the defendant did it, was seen doing it on tape and who confessed.

Our system is far from perfect if it executed 22 innocent people and sent at least 200 more to death row.

An imperfect system can't have an irreversible penalty.

 

[BackAgain]

Our system is far from perfect if it executed 22 innocent people and sent at least 200 more to death row.

An imperfect system can't have an irreversible penalty.

You didn’t understand my post.

I never said it was perfect.

We are all humans and thus imperfect, as is our justice system.

But I also noted that where some killer does his deed on camera and also confesses, there really isn’t any reasonable doubt. Indeed, there’s no doubt.

I’m not a major supporter of the death penalty because, in part, as you say, it does preclude correction of a later discovery shows the wrong person was convicted. But there are exceptions to my general disapproval.

 

[Meathead]

Our system is far from perfect if it executed 22 innocent people and sent at least 200 more to death row.

An imperfect system can't have an irreversible penalty.

Nonsense. You cannot prove that 22 people executed were innocent. If a single innocent murderer was executed, they'd be shouting from the rooftops.

The fact that these murderers live as long as they do and those who are never arrested or much less executed are the travesties of justice.