Florida To Execute Triple Murderer Who Killed Three People Over a $2,000 Debt

A Florida man who committed a triple homicide in 1992 over $2,000 is set to be put to death Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his most recent appeal.

Curtis Windom, 59, shot and killed Johnnie Lee, Valerie Davis and Mary Lubin in the Orlando area, the Associated Press detailed. The shooting rampage occurred after Windom heard that Lee had won some money at a greyhound racetrack. According to Windom, Lee owed him $2,000.

Windom purchased a gun from Walmart, drove around until he found Lee and then shot him twice in the back from his car. Windom later drove to an apartment and shot and killed Lee's girlfriend, Valerie Davis, the AP reported.

The Davis killing happened in front of a witness and was described as unprovoked. Davis left the apartment and encountered Lubin as she drove up to the apartment and shot her to death as well, the AP added.

Lubin was shot while sitting in her car at a stop sign. Davis had previously been involved with Windom and was the mother of his Curtisia Windom. Lubin was the girl's grandmother.

"We've all been traumatized," Curtisia told the Orlando Sentinel. "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."

Kevin Jackson from the Community of Sant'Eigidio has advocated for clemency in the Windom case and has corresponded with Windom.

"I would encourage all those who come across Curtis' case to look at the example of his family, to look at the forgiveness that they've extended to their father, their grandfather, and to realize that we need to emulate that as best we can," Jackson told Vatican News.

"We need to honor their gesture of forgiveness. In supporting Curtis, we're not saying that crime goes unpunished. We're not saying that it doesn't matter when people do bad things. We're saying that we're capable of offering forgiveness and mercy that transcend those things," he said.