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A Florida Man He was convicted of killing his girlfriend, her mother and a man who said money more than 30 years ago, on Thursday set to death, extending the recorded executions made in the sun to 11 so far.
Curtis Vinda, 59, died with a deadly injection at 18:17 at the State Prison of Florida on Thursday, near Starka on Thursday, according to the associated press. He was sentenced at 7. November 1992. years, the murders of his girlfriend Valerie Davis, Mother Mary Lubin and Johnnie Lee, who claimed to owed $ 2,000.
The face in Windows was covered with a sheet when the curtain was raised until the death chamber, a little before the injection was set to start, the AP reported. When drugs were applied, he began to take a deep breath and his legs tweaked several times before he stop moving.
Davis’s sister Kemena Hunter wore a T-shirt at a press conference after the execution she read, “Justice for her, healing for me.”
Curtis Vinddom, 59 years old, said dead at 18:17 at the State Prison of Florida near Stark. (Florida Correction Department)
“All I want to say is that it took it 33 years to close,” Hunter said, adding that “Vengeance is Mine, says the Lord.”
On the day Three murdersA friend said that Vinda was that Lee won $ 114 at the racetrack of HRT, according to court records. Vinda replied to a friend to “read about me” and that he planned to kill a man who owed him money.
Vinda went to Walmart and bought a revolver of 038 caliber and a box of 50 shells, according to the court testimony. A short time later, Vinda was looking for Lee and twice shot him in the back of the car before firing two more shots standing nearby.
After that murder, Vinda went to Davis’s apartment and shot and killed her friend “without provocation,” the court records were shown. Vinddom was then shot and wounded another man before he lethally filmed Davis’ mother in his car, as she drove to the apartment of his daughter.
It was sentenced to death for three murders and given the 22-year sentence for attempted murder.
Curtis Vinda died for the killings of his girlfriend, her mother and man claimed to owe him $ 2,000. (AP)
Davis was the mother of one of the windout children who tried to stop her father’s father.
“Forgiveness comes over time and 33 years is a long time,” Curtisia Vinda told the statement. “I, I forgave my father.”
Cousins and friends Three victims of killings also published a joint statement saying that they still loved and worried about Vinda and that Florida officials could not stop preventing the execution they could prevent.
“33 years ago Curtis Vinddom took the lives of our mother Valerie Davis, Grandma Mari Lubin and a dear family friend Johnny Lee,” said the statement. “Whether The Events Of That Day Made US The Surviving Victims Of A Violent Crime Execution, Or Both, We Have All Lived Our Lives Wearing a Label That The State of Florida Decided Should Define And Divide US. We Haved’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 continued to love and worry about Curtis,” she continued. “We celebrated diplomas and wedding over the phone. We brought His grandchildren to visit him at the state prison of Florida. We have connected ties despite the desires of glass and cells. We forgave him.”
The statement added that “still reject the labels that are given to us.”
“We are arising that the state of Florida did not listen to our objections,” the statement said. “And we are committed to keep talking our story.”
Cousins and friends Three victims of killings said they still loved and worried about Curtis Vinda. (AP Photo / Sue Huge, File)
Vinda and his lawyers submitted more complaints, claiming that he was represented by an incompetent lawyer when presenting evidence of mental health fighting.
The final winom appeal refused The US Supreme Court Wednesday.
“Forgiveness and healing does not originate from the deadly injection in the death chamber. They come from the family of decades, visits and phone calls with Curtis, where the remorse and redemption,” Floridians told the mortal penalty. “They come from curtis to build new relationships with people who are so deeply injured that there is hope for a less violent future. His executioning stopped tonight that it was healing in their numers and replaced it with new pain.”
“Governor Desantis does not speak for all families of the victims,” the group added. “Tonight execution was not justice. It was because of a flexible political muscle.”
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Vindomic performance expands the records of Florida this year next numerous death orders signed by Republic GOV. Ron Desantis. 12. The design of the state this year was set for 17. September.
This year, the state executed more people this year than any other country, with Texas and South Caroline tied to second-majority with four. All over the United States, 30 people have been executed in 2025 so far.
The associated press has contributed to this report.
