Florida Supreme Court Won’t Stop Bundy Execution, Bars Rehearing
Florida’s Supreme Court on Friday refused to block Theodore Bundy’s scheduled execution for the murder of a 12-year-old girl in 1978 and said it does not want to hear from the suspected serial killer again.
The 42-year-old former law student is scheduled to die in the electric chair Tuesday morning at Florida State Prison.
Defense attorney James Coleman was expected to take his appeal to U.S. District Court in Orlando for a hearing this morning.
The state high court rejected three claims from Bundy and said his attempt to again raise the issue of mental competency constituted an abuse of process. It said the issue had not been raised in a timely fashion, should have been raised at an earlier stage and already had been settled in a case in which Bundy was convicted of murdering two sorority sisters.
The court also said no petition for a rehearing would be permitted.
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