Curtis Windom is scheduled to be executed by the State of Florida for a triple murder that took place in 1992
According to court documents Curtis Windom would buy a gun and a bunch of ammunition from Walmart then would go seek out Johnnie Lee who owed Windom money. Windom would shoot and kill Lee then would head to the home of Valerie Davis, the girlfriend of Johnnie Lee, who he would also fatally shoot and injure a man who was also inside of the home. Windom would then murder Valerie Davis mother Mary Lubin as she was driving to her daughters home
Curtis Windom would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Curtis Windom is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection
Curtis Windom Execution News
A man convicted of killing his girlfriend, her mother and a man he claimed owed him $2,000 is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday in what would be a record 11th execution in the state of Florida this year.
Curtis Windom, 59, would become the 30th person executed this year in the U.S., with Florida leading the way behind a flurry of death warrants signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. A 12th man, David Joseph Pittman, 63, is scheduled to be put to death in Florida on Sept. 17.
Windom, whose final appeals for a stay were rejected Wednesday by the U.S. Supreme Court, is scheduled to be executed at Florida State Prison near Starke. He was sentenced to die for the Nov. 7, 1992, killing of Johnnie Lee, Valerie Davis and Mary Lubin in the Orlando area.
Court records show a friend told Windom that day that Lee, who supposedly owed Windom the $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 that, 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 victim at close range.
Then Windom ran to Davis’ apartment and fatally shot his girlfriend “with no provocation” in front of a friend who witnessed the murder, 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
Windom received death sentences for the murders and a 22-year sentence for the attempted murder. Davis was the mother of one of Windom’s children, a daughter who has been campaigning to halt her father’s execution.
“We’ve all been traumatized,” the daughter, Curtisia Windom, told the Orlando Sentinel. “It hurt. It hurt a lot. Life was not easy growing up. But if we could forgive him, I don’t see why people on the street who haven’t been through our pain have a right to say he should die.”
Windom’s lawyers have filed numerous appeals over the years, including a claim that evidence of his mental problems should have been introduced at trial. But the Florida Supreme Court ruled that was not prejudicial against Windom because prosecutors then would have presented evidence that Windom was a drug dealer and the two women he killed were police informants.
Many of Curtis Windom’s appeals have focused on claims that he was represented by an incompetent lawyer when it came to presenting mental health evidence.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976, 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.
The most recent execution in Florida took place on Aug. 19 when Kayle Bates, 67, was put to death for the killing of a woman he abducted from a Florida Panhandle insurance office.
Florida executions are carried out using a three-drug lethal injection — a sedative, a paralytic and a drug that stops the heart, according to the state Department of Corrections.
Curtis Windom Execution
A Florida man convicted of killing his girlfriend, her mother and a man he said owed him money more than 30 years ago was put to death on Thursday, extending the record number of executions carried out in the Sunshine State to 11 so far this year.
Curtis Windom, 59, died by lethal injection at 6:17 p.m. at Florida State Prison near Starke on Thursday, according to The Associated Press. He was convicted in the Nov. 7, 1992, killings of his girlfriend Valerie Davis, her mother Mary Lubin and Johnnie Lee, who he claimed owed him $2,000.
Windom’s face was covered by a sheet when the curtain was raised to the death chamber shortly before the injection was set to begin, The AP reported. When the drugs were administered, he began taking deep breaths and his legs twitched several times before he stopped moving.
Davis’ sister Kemene Hunter wore a T-shirt to a news conference following 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 that “vengeance is mine says the Lord.”
On the day of the three killings, a friend told Windom that Lee had won $114 at a greyhound racetrack, according to court records. Windom responded to the friend that “you’re gonna read about me” and that he planned to kill the man who owed him money.
Curtis Windom went to a Walmart and purchased a .38-caliber revolver and a box of 50 shells, according to court testimony. A short time later, Windom drove in search of Lee and shot him twice in the back from his car before firing two more shots standing at close range.
After that killing, Curtis Windom went to Davis’ apartment and shot and killed her in front of a friend “with no provocation,” court records showed. Windom then shot and wounded another man before fatally shooting Davis’ mother in her car at a stop sign as she drove to her daughter’s apartment.
He was sentenced to death for the three murders and given a 22-year sentence for the attempted murder
Davis was the mother of one of Curtis Windom’s children, who had sought to stop her father’s execution.
“Forgiveness comes with time, and 33 years is a long time,” Curtisia Windom said in a statement. “I, myself, have forgiven my father.”
Relatives and friends of the three murder victims also released a joint statement saying that they still loved and cared for Windom and that Florida officials had told them there was nothing they could do to stop the execution they had campaigned to prevent.
“33 years ago, Curtis Windom took the lives of our mother Valerie Davis, grandmother Mary Lubin, and dear family friend Johnny Lee,” the statement said. “Whether the events of that day made us the surviving victims of a violent crime, the relatives of a person facing execution, or both, we have all lived our lives wearing a label that the state of Florida decided should define and divide us. We haven’t allowed that to happen, though. We have continued to love and care for each other, teaching our children that there is no use in punishing the many for the acts of the few.”
“Most of all, we have continued to love and care for Curtis,” it continued. “We have celebrated graduations and weddings over the phone. We have brought his grandchildren to visit him at Florida State Prison. We have built connections despite the visitation glass and cell bars. We have forgiven him.”
The statement added that they “will continue to reject the labels that we were given.”
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“We are heartbroken that the State of Florida didn’t listen to our pleas,” the statement said. “And we are committed to continuing to tell our story.”
Curtis Windom and his lawyers filed multiple appeals, arguing that he was represented by an incompetent lawyer when presenting evidence of mental health struggles.
Curtis Windom’s final appeal was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday.
“Forgiveness and healing do not come from a lethal injection in the death chamber. They come from the families’ decades of conversations, visits, and phone calls with Curtis, where he demonstrated remorse and redemption,” Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty said in a statement. “They come from Curtis building new relationships with the people he has so deeply hurt. They come from showing a new generation of Windoms that there is a hope for a less violent future. His execution tonight stopped that healing in its tracks, and replaced it with new pain.”
“Governor DeSantis does not speak for all victims’ families,” the group added. “Tonight’s execution wasn’t about justice. It was about flexing political muscle.”
Curtis Windom’s execution extends Florida’s record this year following numerous death warrants signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. The state’s 12th execution this year is set for Sept. 17.
The Sunshine State has executed more people this year than any other state, with Texas and South Carolina tied for the second-most with four each. Across the U.S., 30 people have been executed so far in 2025.
