The father of a 9-year-old boy who was abducted, raped and murdered in Miami-Dade County in 1995 said the execution of his son's killer is about seeking justice.
"It's not about revenge," Don Ryce told reporters at his Vero Beach home Friday.
Ryce held the news conference Friday, a day after Gov. Rick Scott signed a death warrant for Juan Carlos Chavez, who was convicted of killing young Jimmy Ryce.
Chavez, 46, is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 6 p.m.
"We're not going to celebrate but there's a feeling of relief," Don Ryce said.
Chavez kidnapped Jimmy one block from his home in Redland on Sept. 11, 1995, ordering him at gunpoint into his truck. He drove him to his trailer, where he sexually battered him and held him captive for more than three and a half hours before he shot and killed the boy when he tried to escape.
Two days after the murder, Chavez dismembered the boy's body, filled three planters with his remains and sealed the planters with concrete. Jimmy's remains were found three months later near the home of Chavez, who confessed to the killing.
It was a case that horrified the state and led to the passage of the Jimmy Ryce Act, which allows authorities to commit dangerous sexual predators to mental institutions once they have completed their prison terms. The law would not have stopped Chavez, however, as he had no previous record for sex crimes.
After the murder, Don Ryce and his wife Claudine, who died in 2009, worked to pass laws that would help find abducted children and prevent similar crimes. ..Source..
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