A former Marine who abducted, raped, and murdered a six-year-old girl is set to be executed in Florida on Thursday evening.
Bryan Frederick Jennings, 66, is set to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m., ABC News reported. Jennings was 20 when he abducted 6-year-old Rebecca Kunash from her family's home. Jennings was on leave from the Marines at the time.
According to ABC News, Jennings removed a screen from the girl's bedroom window, entered the room, and kidnapped her while her parents were in another room. He then drove to a canal and raped the girl. Following the sexual assault, he smashed her skull and drowned her in the canal.
USA TODAY reported that Kunash's father to check on her at 11 p.m. and she was sound asleep. The next morning, when the girl's mother went to wake her at 7 a.m. she was gone.
Jennings was later arrested on a traffic warrant the same day of the disappearance. CBS News reported that among the evidence against Jennings was that he matched a witness description of a man seen near the home, shoe prints were matched to Jennings, and his fingerprints were found on the windowsill.
According to USA Today, Jennings later confessed to the crime, telling investigators that he "always had this thing to look into windows."
Jennings' final appeals have been denied, and barring a last-minute surprise intervention, he will become Florida's 16th execution this year.
