Nation : ‘Time Ted Bundy Paid for Crimes,’ Fla. Gov. Says, Signs Death Warrant
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Bob Martinez signed a new death warrant today for mass murderer Ted Bundy, who lost his bid to have the Supreme Court overturn his death sentence for the slaying of a 12-year-old girl.
“Justice has been on hold for a decade,” the governor said after Bundy’s final appeal was rejected, “and it’s about time Ted Bundy paid for his crimes.”
Bundy, 42, is scheduled to die at 7 a.m. next Tuesday for the murder of Kimberly Diane Leach, whose sexually abused body was found in a pigsty two months after she disappeared. Bundy, whose case was the subject of a TV miniseries, also received death sentences for the 1978 slayings of two Florida State University sorority sisters who were beaten and strangled just three weeks before the Leach murder.
Bundy also is suspected in the deaths of up to 36 other women, most of them in the Pacific Northwest.
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