Justice Won’t Block Florida Execution of Theodore Bundy
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WASHINGTON — A Supreme Court justice on Tuesday refused to block the March 4 execution in Florida of Theodore Bundy, convicted killer of two Florida State University sorority sisters.
Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. turned down Bundy’s emergency request “without prejudice to permit (him) to obtain counsel and to file an application which complies with the rules of this court.” Bundy had prepared his own hand-written application for the stay.
Bundy, 39, was sentenced to die in the electric chair for the 1978 strangulations of Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy as they slept in the Chi Omega sorority house in Tallahassee. Bundy has also been sentenced to death for the 1978 murder and rape of Kimberly Diane Leach, 12, who was kidnaped in Lake City, Fla.
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