Florida to put man to death for a triple murder in record 11th execution this year
Starke, Florida – – A man found guilty of having killed his girlfriend, his mother and a man whom he said owed him $ 2,000 should receive a lethal injection Thursday in what would be an 11th record execution in the state of Florida this year.
Curtis Windom, 59, would become the 30th person executed this year in the United States, with Florida, which opens the way behind a wave of death mandates signed by republican governor Ron Desantis. A 12th man, David Joseph Pittman, 63, should be put to death in Florida on September 17.
Windom, whose final calls for a suspension were rejected Wednesday by the United States Supreme Court, is expected to be executed in Florida State Prison near Starke. He was condemned to die for November 7, 1992, killing Johnnie Lee, Valerie Davis and Mary Lubin in the Orlando region.
Judicial files show that a friend told Windom that day that Lee, who should have windom of $ 2,000, had won $ 114 on a levial chicken track. Windom told the friend that “you will read on me” and that he planned to kill Lee.
Windom went to a Walmart to buy a caliber revolver .38 and a box of 50 shells, according to a testimony from the court. Shortly after, Windom led to find Lee, located it and pulled it twice in the back of his car, followed by two other shots standing over the victim at close range.
Then Windom ran to Davis’ apartment and fatally killed his girlfriend “without provocation” in front of a friend who witnessed the murder, according to the judicial archives. Windom fired at random and injured another man before meeting Davis’ mother Mary Lubin, when she went to her daughter’s apartment. Lubin was shot dead twice in his car with a stop panel.
Windom was sentenced to death for murders and a 22 -year -old sentence for the attempted murder. Davis was the mother of one of the children of Windom, a girl who campaigned to stop the execution of her father.
“We were all traumatized,” said the girl, Curtisia Windom, to Orlando Sentinel. “It hurt. It was a lot of trouble. Life was not easy to grow. But if we could forgive him, I do not see why people on the street who have not experienced our pain have the right to say that he should die. ”
Windom lawyers have filed numerous calls over the years, including an assertion that evidence of its mental problems should have been introduced to the trial. But the Florida Supreme Court judged that this was not detrimental to Windom because the prosecutors would then have presented evidence that Windom was a drug trafficker and that the two women he killed were police informants.
Many Windom calls have focused on the assertions that it was represented by an incompetent lawyer when it was a question of presenting evidence in mental health.
Since the United States Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976, the highest annual annual total of Florida executions was eight in 2014. Florida executed more people than any other state this year, while Texas and South Carolina have been tied for second place with four each.
The most recent execution in Florida took place on August 19 when Kayle Bates, 67, was put to death for the murder of a woman he removed from an insurance office of Florida Panhandle.
Florida executions are carried out using a lethal injection to three drugs – a sedative, a paralytic and a medication that stops the heart, according to the Correctional Services of the State.
