Florida carried out its 11th execution of the year on Thursday — a record-setting number in the modern era — after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a final appeal for a man convicted of three murders in 1992.

Curtis Windom, 59, was put to death by lethal injection at Florida State Prison after being convicted of killing his girlfriend, Valerie Davis; her mother, Mary Lubin, and Johnnie Lee, a man he claimed owed him money, on Feb. 7, 1992. The high court declined to hear his case on Wednesday, following a similar rejection by the Florida Supreme Court last week. Gov. Ron DeSantis on July 29 signed a death warrant for Windom .

Authorities said Windom was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. after receiving a three-drug injection. His final words were unintelligible, and he showed brief physic

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