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Supreme Court Clears Way for Florida’s 11th Execution of 2025 in Curtis Windom Case

The justices’ refusal to intervene leaves a death warrant in place during a year of record executions in Florida.

Curtis Windom, 59, is to be executed by lethal injection in Florida for the murders of three people
In this Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 photo, the gurney in the the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary is pictured in McAlester, Okla. Oklahoma plans to resume executions Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015, after botching its last one and will use the same three-drug method as a Florida lethal injection scheduled for the same day.
Curtis Windom, sentenced to death in 1992.

Overview

  • Windom is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. ET on Aug. 28 at Florida State Prison near Starke.
  • Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Windom’s death warrant on July 29, and the execution would be Florida’s 11th this year, setting a modern‑era state record.
  • Curtis Windom, 59, was sentenced to death for the Nov. 7, 1992 killings of Johnnie Lee, his girlfriend Valerie Davis, and her mother Mary Lubin in the Orlando area.
  • Defense filings citing ineffective counsel and unpresented mental‑health evidence were rejected by the Florida Supreme Court and, on Aug. 27, by the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • Florida conducts executions using a three‑drug protocol; if carried out, this would be the 30th U.S. execution of 2025, and a separate execution for David Joseph Pittman is scheduled for Sept. 17.