Florida completes its eleventh execution in 2025 of murderer of three people 33 years ago

As reported in this AP article, a “man convicted of killing his girlfriend, her mother and a man he claimed owed him $2,000 was put to death Thursday in a record 11th execution this year by the state of Florida.” Here is more:

Curtis Windom, 59, was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke, authorities said. He was sentenced to die for the Nov. 7, 1992, killings of girlfriend Valerie Davis, her mother Mary Lubin, and Johnnie Lee in the Orlando area….

Kemene Hunter, a sister of victim Valerie Davis, wore a T-shirt to a news conference after the execution that read, “Justice for her, healing for me.” “All I want to say is, it took 33 years to get some closure,” Hunter said, adding “Vengeance is mine says the lord.”

Windom was the 30th person executed in the U.S. to date in 2025, with Florida leading the way behind a flurry of death warrants signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. A 12th inmate, David Joseph Pittman, 63, is scheduled to be put to death in the state on Sept. 17.

Court records show a friend told Windom the day of the killings that Lee — who supposedly owed Windom $2,000 — had won $114 at a greyhound racetrack. Windom told the friend that “you’re gonna read about me” and that he planned to kill Lee. Windom went to a Walmart to buy a .38-caliber revolver and a box of 50 shells, according to court testimony. Not long after, Windom drove to find Lee, located him and shot him twice in the back from his car, followed by two more shots standing over the nab at close range.

Then Windom headed to Davis’ apartment and fatally shot his girlfriend “with no provocation” in front of a friend, court records show. Windom randomly shot and wounded another man before encountering Davis’ mother, Mary Lubin, as she drove to her daughter’s apartment. Lubin was shot twice in her car at a stop sign….

Davis was the mother of one of Windom’s children, a daughter who had campaigned to stop the execution from being carried out. “Forgiveness comes with time, and 33 years is a long time. I, myself, have forgiven my father,” the daughter, Curtisia Windom, said in a statement from an anti-death penalty group that delivered more than 5,000 petition signatures to the governor this week, urging him to intervene….

Since the 1976 restoration of the death penalty in the U.S. by the Supreme Court, the highest previous annual total of Florida executions was eight in 2014. Florida has executed more people than any other state this year, while Texas and South Carolina are tied for second place with four each.