Nearly 19 years after he raped, murdered and dismembered a 9-year-old boy, Florida was finally able to put Juan Carlos Chavez to death
On September 11, 1995, Chavez kidnapped 9-year-old Jimmy Ryce at gunpoint right after he got off a school bus in a rural area of Miami-Dade County. He took Ryce to his trailer where he sexually assaulted the little boy. When the boy tried to escape, Chavez shot him in the back and then dismembered him, hiding the body parts in concrete-covered planters.
Florida was finally able to put Chavez to death Wednesday evening after last minute appeals to the state’s Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court failed in a bid for a stay of execution.
Little Jimmy’s parents set up a foundation that has donated more than 400 bloodhounds to police agencies around the country, and even abroad, to be used in the search for missing children. It took three months from the time Jimmy was reported missing until his body parts were found, and they were only discovered because Chavez led authorities to where they were hidden.
In 1998, Jimmy’s parents also persuaded the Florida legislature to enact The Jimmy Ryce Act which allows sexual predators to continue to be confined under civil commitment if they are deemed to still be highly dangerous upon completion of their prison sentences. Since then, similar laws have been passed by other states.
The extermination of this vermin was long overdue. I find it extremely hard to comprehend how anyone could oppose capital punishment in this case. I suppose it’s easy to be a death penalty abolitionist if your young child has not been raped and murdered by some piece of shit like Chavez.
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They should have run him through a chipper-shredder without the both of executing him first.
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