Jimmy Ryce

The late Jimmy Ryce, the 9-year-old boy whose 1995 abduction and murder sparked sweeping national reforms in child safety and missing children's protections, will be honored on Friday with a street naming ceremony.

Nineteen years after the crime, Jimmy Ryce’s killer has been put to death. Juan Carlos Chavez is the second death row inmate to be executed in Florida…

Juan Carlos Chavez's inadvertent legacy to the people of Florida was a piece of legislation now known as the Jimmy Ryce Act, in honor of the nine-year-old…

Gov. Rick Scott has scheduled a February execution for Juan Carlos Chavez, who committed the notorious 1995 murder of 9-year-old Jimmy Ryce in Miami-Dade…