A man was executed at Florida State Prison in Starke on Wednesday night.
Juan Carlos Chavez was pronounced dead at 8:17 p.m.
Chavez was convicted of the 1995 abduction, rape and murder of 9-year-old Jimmy Ryce in Miami-Dade County.
Ryce was abducted from his bus stop near his home. As Ryce tried escaping Chavez, investigators say Chavez shot him in the back.
Ryce's body was found dismembered in three plastic flower pots, covered with concrete three months later.
The execution at Starke was attended by a Bay area father that lost his 8-year-old daughter in 1998.
Roy Brown says he has become close friends of the Ryce family, and any support he can give them helps bring him closer to his own daughter, Amanda.
"I want justice for my daughter," Brown said during a candid interview. "I want justice for Jimmy. I want justice for all these missing kids, but they are not getting it, you know? They are getting tormented--is what they are getting."
Chavez has been on death row appealing his case for 18 years. The man convicted of abducting and killing Amanda Brown, Willie Crain, is still on death row in his second round of appeals.
"Every one of these families would have a completely different life," said Brown. "We'd have a life like you got. Not that that's wrong, but we'd have a normal life."
Brown said since his daughters abduction, he has become a supporter of families that have lost children to abductions. He also said he has pushed lawmakers to speed up the process of justice for families that have had kids abducted.
Chavez's attorney filed his last appeal last week with the U.S. Supreme Court.