STARKE, Fla. (AP) — The father of a 9-year-old South Florida boy raped and murdered in 1995 says he hopes the killer's execution sends a strong signal to other would-be child molesters and abductors.
Don Ryce's son Jimmy Ryce was kidnapped at gunpoint after getting off a school bus in September 1995.
He spoke Wednesday night after 46-year-old Juan Carlos Chavez was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison.
Ryce's parents turned the tragedy's pain into a push for stronger U.S. laws regarding confinement of sexual predators and improved police procedures in missing child cases.
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