Posted on 08/29/2025 10:35:09 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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."
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He went to Walmart, purchased a weapon, and killed the three in 1992.
33 years later, he's sitting in a gurney after Ron Desantis signed a death warrant. Another Thug Bites the Dust!
I can hear Ken Hamblin playing some Queen to celebrate the execution.
3 murders before Clinton even took his first oath. Despicable delay of justice for the families
The saddest part of this is that it took 33 years to fulfill justice.
I am firmly of the belief that executions should be a public event so as to provide some pause to consider for potential criminals. There is no need for the event to be gory or dangerous - no firing squads or guillotines. Actually a long drop whilst attached to a short rope should be spectacle enough.
It is not “cruel and unusual punishment”
It is not cruel. Junkies kill themselves like this all the time.
Although a 45 round to the back of the head would be a lot quicker and more merciful. Bam! Lights out! Never know what hit him.
Nor would it be unusual if executions of murderers became a daily occurrence.
Perhaps if we changed the name to “retroactive abortion” we could get the “liberals” on board.
Sealed tank and push in nitrogen until it saturates the inside. You go to sleep and don’t wake up. No costly chemicals, no ballistic weapons. They won’t suffer a ghastly death for public viewing, but I kind of want that... for the deterrent factor.
Govt shouldn’t kill people.
Let the family sell tickets and weapons to willing participants.
Sell Blow Torches, Axes, Machetes, Sledge Hammers.
Put it in on Pay Per View for remunerative restitution.
There ought to be a reasonably close relationship between the number of murders in any state and the number of exxecutions.
Doesn’t pay?
I don’t know, it payed this asshole 3 hots, a cot and medical care for 33 years didn’t it?
33 years is ridiculous! 3 years would have been too many.
“ Although a 45 round to the back of the head would be a lot quicker and more merciful. Bam! Lights out! Never know what hit him.”
And charge the family for the bullet.
We think alike. And their has to be a HOV lane built to execute within ONE year.
30 Years?
That’s not 6th Amendment swift justice.
Absolutely classic!
It took seven years and 30 days from conviction to chair for Joseph Carl Shaw, 22, convicted in December 1977 of the October 17, 1977 murder of Betty Swank (21), and ten days later, Thomas Taylor (17) and Carlotta Hartness (14), for him to be convicted of murder to his seat in South Carolina’s famous frying pan that no longer exists where the Canalside development now sits. (The frying pan was moved to its current location, Broad River Correctional, in 1990.)
It took eight years and 29 days for James Terry Roach, 17, an accomplice who also was involved in the triple murder, to be fried.
It took 16 years and almost four months for Thomas Ivey, 18, to be sent to the Broad River gurney following a January 15, 1993 assassination of local policeman Thomas Harrison.
Most recent executions have come late because of rules against executions caused by Democrat politicians OR the lack of lethal injection drugs because the three-drug cocktail was unavailable. Lethal injection became preferred. Now states are adding nitrogen-based gas chambers, firing squads, and the old-fashioned electric chair again for criminals. Also the docket for appeals has much to do with delays.
I like it
I was living in St. Pete when Bundy was executed. A morning drive-time radio station was asking for input re Bundy recipes and items for a menu. The one I recall was “Cajun Bundy Gumbo”. It was a hilarious show that day.
30 wasted years.
Fry ‘em FASTER!!!
Cajun Bundy Gumbo. Wished those comedic recipes were stored.
Yep.
1. Take the surplus from tariffs and establish special courts for capital crimes.
2. Sue for SCOTUS to reexamine the idiocy of “cruel and unusual” punishment for the gallows.Make hangings great again.
3. Examine changes in rules of evidence.
a. where if a prosecutor deliberately withholds exculpatory evidence from the defense, that is a Murder 1 charge (if the person is executed), and an attempted murder if otherwise not carried out.
b. the standard has to be clear and convincing, beyond reasonable doubt— with jury instruction as to what this means.
4. There has to be a rubric how the immediate family will be taken care of by the state if an accused is put to death wrongly.
5. Execution has to be public for deterrence. Mandatory attendance by violent crimes and certain domestic abuse.
6. Mid-Terms. Constitutional Amendment dealing with federal death penalty; clarify treason and sedition penaltie, to include stealing elections.. Basically, the entire DNC should have been hanged the moment the false birth certificate was floated.
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