Florida on Thursday carried out its 11th execution of 2025, the most in a single year since capital punishment was reinstated in the state nearly five decades ago. Curtis Windom, 59, was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. after receiving a three-drug lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke, according to the Department of Corrections. The execution surpassed the state’s previous annual peak of eight, set in 2014, and marked the 30th execution nationwide so far this year. Windom was condemned for the Nov. 7 1992 shootings of his girlfriend, Valerie Davis, her mother, Mary Lubin, and Johnnie Lee, a man he said owed him $2,000. Court records show Windom bought a .38-caliber revolver at a Walmart, fatally shot Lee, then killed Davis and Lubin in separate attacks the same day. He also wounded a bystander and received a 22-year sentence for attempted murder. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Windom’s final appeal a day before the execution, upholding lower-court rulings that dismissed claims of ineffective legal counsel and unpresented mental-health evidence. Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, has signed a flurry of death warrants this year; a 12th execution is scheduled for Sept. 17, when David Joseph Pittman, 63, is set to die for a 1990 triple murder in Polk County. Since the U.S. Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976, 2025 is on track to be Florida’s busiest execution year and has already eclipsed other states. Texas and South Carolina follow distantly with four executions each. Critics and religious leaders have intensified calls for a moratorium, while supporters say the pace reflects the clearing of longstanding death-row backlogs.