Ted Bundy Gets Gift of Life From Supreme Court
The Supreme Court today refused to let Florida authorities execute multiple murderer Ted Bundy for the 1978 slaying of a 12-year-old girl in Lake City, Fla.
The court, without any recorded dissent, turned down the state’s emergency request aimed at dissolving a federal appeals court order that postponed Bundy’s scheduled execution.
He was to have died in Florida’s electric chair Tuesday morning, but the death warrant for his execution was good through noon today.
The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals granted Bundy an indefinite postponement Tuesday, less than seven hours before he was to die. The Atlanta-based court said more time was needed to consider Bundy’s claim that he was mentally incompetent to stand trial and act as his own attorney in the Lake City case.
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