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Feb 12 (Reuters) – Cuban immigrant Juan Carlos Chavez was

executed on Wednesday for the 1995 kidnapping, rape and murder

of 9-year-old Jimmy Ryce, a spokesman for Florida Governor Rick

Scott said.

Chavez died by lethal injection. The spokesman said he was

executed at 8:17 p.m. at Florida State Prison at Starke.

(Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Eric Walsh)