Ted Bundy, Subject of Miniseries, Loses High Court Appeal
Theodore Bundy, sentenced to death for strangling two Florida sorority sisters as they slept in 1978, lost a Supreme Court appeal today challenging key testimony used to convict him.
The justices rejected Bundy’s bid to escape the electric chair for the murders of Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy at Florida State University’s Chi Omega house.
Bundy, a law school dropout, argued that testimony from another sorority sister should not have been allowed because she was hypnotized before his trial.
Bundy, 39, was scheduled to die in March at the Florida State Prison, but Justice Lewis Powell intervened in late February, granting Bundy extra time to file an appeal.
Bundy’s dramatized story, “The Deliberate Stranger,” is a current miniseries on NBC.
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