By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 09:45 EST, 3 January 2014 | UPDATED: 11:25 EST, 3 January 2014 The Miami farmhand who brutally raped, murdered and dismembered nine-year-old Jimmy Ryce in 1995 will be executed next month, Florida Governor Rick Scott announced yesterday. Juan Carlos Chavez, 46, will be killed by injection on February 12 over the murder which shocked America and led to new laws allowing the state to indefinitely detain sexual predators. After nearly 20 years of anguish and uncertainty, Jimmy's family say Chavez's execution is the justice they have been waiting for.
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Juan Carlos Chavez, 46, confessed to kidnapping, raping and shooting Jimmy Ryce, nine, in South Miami-Dade in September 1995
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Florida Governor Rick Scott signed Chavez's death warrant
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Chavez will be executed by lethal injection on February 12
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Chavez was sentenced to death in 1998 but had appealed twice
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