Curtis Windom’s attorneys argue ‘evolving standards of decency’ and due process violations should spare his life.

With a death warrant signed and an execution scheduled for August 28, the Florida Supreme Court is considering a final, impassioned appeal from Curtis Windom, a death row inmate convicted of three first-degree murders in 1992. Filed just weeks before his scheduled execution, the appeal asserts that Florida’s justice system failed him by allowing an unqualified attorney to represent him and by rushing his final appeals, denying him due process.

Windom’s attorneys from Capital Collateral Regional Counsel-Middle Region (CCRC-M) filed an emergency appeal on Monday, arguing that the standards for competent legal counsel have evolved significantly since Windom’s 1992 trial.

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