Family of woman murdered 33 years ago finally see justice as thug killed on death row

A triple murderer was finally executed on death row today more than 30 years after the killings.

Curtis Windom's execution, the record 11th in Florida this year, saw him given the lethal injection at a prison and become lifeless within minutes. He murdered his girlfriend Valerie Davis, her mother Mary Lubin, and Johnnie Lee, a man who he claimed owed him $2,000 (£1,500 today), and was sentenced to die in November 1992.

Although it took almost 33 years for the execution, Kemene Hunter, a sister of victim Valerie Davis, jailed justice today. She wore a T-shirt to a news conference after the execution which read: "Justice for her, healing for me."

"All I want to say is, it took 33 years to get some closure. Vengeance is mine, says the lord," Kemene told reporters outside Florida State Prison near Starke, where Windom was killed.

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After Windom, 59, was given the three-drug injection — a sedative, a paralytic and a drug that stops the heart — he began taking deep breaths and his legs twitched several times, before he became still.

It made the thug the 30th person executed in the US to date in 2025, with Florida leading the way. The state is next month scheduled to execute a 12th inmate — David Pittman — for stabbing his estranged wife's sister in the 1990s. Earlier this month, Kayle Bates received a lethal injection for killing a woman he abducted from an insurance office in Florida.

And Windom shot his partner "with no provocation" in front of a friend, court records show. Windom, who was a dad, randomly shot and wounded another man before encountering Valerie's' mother as she drove to her daughter's apartment. Mary was shot twice in her car at a stop sign.

Windom had also killed Johnnie in Orlando, Florida, after the man supposedly owed Windom $2,000 (£1,500 today). Court records show Windom went to a supermarket to buy a .38-caliber revolver and a box of 50 shells and, not long after, Windom drove to find the man, located him and shot him twice in the back from his car, followed by two more shots standing over the nab at close range.

Windom received death sentences for the murders and a 22-year sentence for the attempted murder. Howeer, his daughter Curtisia Windom whom he shared with Valerie, had campaigned to stop the execution from being carried out. She had said: "Forgiveness comes with time, and 33 years is a long time. I, myself, have forgiven my father."

An anti-death penalty group delivered a petition with more than 5,000 signatures to the governor this week, urging him to intervene. However, the decision remained to execute Windom, who became the 11th person to be killed on death row in Florida this year.