Death row inmate's final actions in hours before execution by lethal injection are revealed
A Florida man’s last actions before his execution have been revealed.
Cutis Windom had been on Death Row at Florida State Prison since 1992 after he was convicted of three murders and one attempted murder on November 7.
Windom, 59, had been executed for murdering his on-again-off-again girlfriend, Valerie Davis, her mother, Mary Lubin, and a man who was said to have owed him $2,000, Johnnie Lee.
He was ultimately put to death via lethal injection, even after his daughter, who he had shared with Davis, pleaded for the execution to be halted.
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Curtis Windom, had campaigned against her father’s execution and made her stance clear to the Orlando Sentinel when she said: “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.”
His daughter delivered a statement via an anti-death penalty group that produced 5,000 petition signatures to the governor to intervene against the execution, said: “Forgiveness comes with time, and 33 years is a long time. I, myself, have forgiven my father.”
Windom is said to have found where Lee was after a friend told him that he had won $114 on a greyhounds’ racetrack bet.
Windom then told the friend: “You're gonna read about me.”
ABC News reported the court documents as claiming Windom purchased a .38-caliber revolver and 50 shells from Walmart before tracking down Lee to his car and shooting him twice.
He then shot him as he lay on the ground.
After he had murdered Lee, Windom is said to have driven to Davis’s apartment and shot her too ‘with no provocation’.
Whilst on his rampage, he shot and injured another man and ran into Lubin as she drove to her daughter’s said after learning about the shooting.
There, he shot her twice as she sat at a stop sign.
During Windom’s last moments alive, he ate his last meal on Thursday August 28, which consisted of ribs, baked beans, collard greens, potato salad, pie, ice cream, and a soda, as per ABC 13.
At 6.02pm, Windom was given the lethal injection. He provided his last words; however, they were unintelligible to those in the witness box. He then took several deep breaths, his chest moving and legs twitching before no more movement was seen past 6.08pm.
He was pronounced dead at 6.17pm, as per the Orlando Sentinel.
Davis's sister, Kemene Hunter, said she supports his execution, WFTV reported.
His execution marked Florida's 11th person killed on death row and the 30th in the country so far this year.
“All I want to say is, it took 33 years to get some closure,” Hunter is reported to have said, adding “Vengeance is mine, says the lord.”
Windom’s lawyers had been trying to prevent the execution for some time, claiming he had mental problems that were not taken into account at his trial.
Just one day before his death, his final appeal had been rejected by the US Supreme Court.
Britt Jones