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now, he may wait until the last
minute, and there won't be a
Jtah police’s only proof
ly’s crimes comes from
the 1976 testimony of Carol DaR-
woman who
survived Bundy's abduction by
escaping, battered and bleeding,
on a November night in 1974
from Bundy’s careening
year-ol
helped put Bundy behind bars
, for aitempted kidnapping,
4 i before Utah authorities
W oould ine Bundy to six other
Fpyshvdustions,allof which they be-
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fc) Sixteen days later, his trail of
terror led to Tallahas: where
he savagely murdered two St, Pe-
ersburg women, Lisa Levy, 20,
and Margaret Bowman, 21, a8
they slept in their rooms at’ the
Chi Omega sorority hou:
Three -weoks later, he took
12-year-old each
ho dake City 7 Middle School
and dumped her body beneath a
collapsed hog shed near Live
Oak. Tike other victims, tne girl
had been raped, blud; and
strangled.
Bundy had
the time her body was found, He
was sentenced to die in two sepa-
tr ial, and was to go to the
n captured by
federal judge in Fort Lauderdale
24-hour stay of execu-
open in as many as
Utah and three diker Ww
ers, “We have never had any
thing prior to Bundy coming into
town, and we have never had.
anything similar to this after
(Bundy left) that would leave us
- to believe that there's anyone but,
Bundy involved. We've hed a lot
of homicides, but nothing like
He'd like to close the cane.
So he and fellow Salt Lake
Sounty detective Dennis Couch
journe; ed te tke
‘hursday
and checked into the Econo-
Lodge, where they were joined
Monday night by Ira Beal, a de-
tective for the Bountiful, Utah
police department,
‘They're waiting for Bundy to
show a smidgeon of regret. Or, at
the very least, a fitst and final
hint at cooperation. Then they'll
leave and, barring another stay,
undy will
Bundy has nothing to gain. by
talking. *
soever,” Backstead said.
would be merely to give him the
opportunity to tell us what hap-
pened. We wouldn’t give him the
oppertanity to make a deal.”
Prison Supt, Richard Dugger
personally notified Bundy that
the detectives were waiting, “and
Bundy told. him he was in no
talk to anyone or
help ‘anyone Beckstead sait
“Wo understand that.
only chance right now is t
y say something to
that might be able to
Dur
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help our.cases out.”
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of many people w
to. get, into Bien mind,. fin
out exactly the way he worked}
ug) at caused
his situation, why he picked cer}
tain girls, There are questions
that will probably never be an:
swored, And that's the sad part of
this thing. It’s very frustrati
people around the
Asign at Sonny's Real Pit Bar-
execution until 7 a.m, Thursday.’
While Bundy may: be the’
most celebrated killer to go to the
chair since Florida -reinstituted
the death penalty, Beckstead. ig
unimpressed.
“T don’t b that Bun
half as shaxp a what a lot of ‘the
ited States
on U.S, 301 in Starke displays one point of vi
execution of Ted Bundy. The sentiment wasn ’t fulfilled, however; a federal judge stayed the
thay have been led to beliove. 1
think he’s just.a typi
tnd I don't see anything out of
the ordinary about him,
“T think that just because he
went to law school fond that he
has’ a degree in’ psychology
doesn't necessarily mean he’
smart. He might have bean’ Jed t
believe in his* mind’ that; he’s’
smart, and through the investiga=
tions been able to buffalo certain:
people. But I believe in the final
moment that the game is ovel
aud the last time-out has boen
called.”
By LUCY MORGAN
St. Petersburg Times Staff Writer
TALLAHASSEE — Convicted serial kill-
er Theodore Robert Bundy has been’ on
death row for seven years, but he isa relative
newcomer compared with some of the 247
other prisoners waiting to die in Florida’s
electric chair.
Polk County murderer Howard Virgil
Douglas arrived on death row at Florida
State Prison in time for Christmas 1973, He
is still there. So is Pinellas County killer.
Willie Darden, who arrived in January 1974,
" Of those on death row, 27 have been
there more than 10 years and 61 were there
before Bundy arrived June 1, 1979.
Why does it take. so long-for the state to
execute those who have been tried, convict-
ed and sentenced to death?
The answer is as complex and varied as
the individual crimes that brought these in-
mates together,
The road that takes an inmate from
courtroom to electric chair is long and filled
with safeguards designed to guarantee that
no innocent person is ever put to death.
Opponents of the death penalty say the
road isn’t long enough. Proponents are frus-
trated by repeated appeals and stays that
delay executions time after time.
Earlier this month, courts in Tallahassee
and Atlanta issued last-minute stays that
saved the lives ‘of Bundy and Gerald Eugene
Stano, two men who have been accused of
illing as many as 75 women. .
The delays prompted howls of outrage
from citizens and groaris from state officials
who say’the legal process has become teo
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hair is full of twists —
Jong and complicated. :
“Tt shouldn’t take seven to 10 years to
complete the.process,” said Attorney Gener-
al Jim Smith, the man charged with pursuing
appeals of capital cases. “The people can't
understand it.” . : :
Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney James T.
Russell, who helped put 32 of the death row
ed appeals are a waste of taxpayers money.
E .%
“I think 10 years i$ too long,” Russell
said. “Some of the collateral’ appeals are
necessary, but they should have to litigate
everything at one time, Now they go up
saying their attorneys.'were incompetent,
then they appeal on grolinds of insanity and
next they say that their'mothers didn’t love
them as children. I think it’s a waste of
mot : :
TOW cases.
inmates in line for execution, said the repeat-*
‘The process that attorneys for Bundy and
Stano are using is part of a routine that has —
become familiar to the lawyers and judges
who deal with the growing number of death
‘Each case begins in a trial court in one of
Florida’s 67 counties, There, a defendant is
convicted and senten ed to di x
Florida’ law mate. to a”
Each ‘case will spend between two'and six
years under review by 5
state’s highest
Each justice ead’
record,’a task that often takes ho
‘direct appeal to the Florida Supreme Court.
f urs and. .
hours, Then attorneys‘ for both sides geta
chance to appear in person to argue the case.
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section
INDAY, JULY 13, 1986
G. Sew
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@ Judge delays 6 Gerald. ‘Stano’s ’s execution three
hours: Page 12A.
By DAN SEWELL .
The Associated Press
A federal judge in Fort Lauderdale Tuesday.
delay in his electrocution scheduled for this
morning, to give Bundy time to take his case toan
appeals court in Atlanta.
US, District Judge William Zloch refused to
grant Bundy a longer reprieve. His ruling de-
layed the execution until 7 a.m. Thursday, five
hours before Bundy’s second death warrant for
the murders of two sorority sisters would expire.
case this morning.
Gerald Stano, also scheduled to die in the elec-
|. tric chair this morning, lost a bid Tuesday to have
his execution halted. A Brevard County circuit
judge refused to block Stano’s execution, but.
granted a stay until 10 this morning so attorneys
could appeal to the Florida Supreme Court.
Bundy, a 39-year-old law school dropout, was
Thus read the sigh in front of Sonny’s Bar-B-Q in Starke on Tuesday:
Bundy given 24 ho
granted serial killer Theodore Bundy a 24-hour...
The appeals court was expected to take up the -
Bundy
women and two other sorority members with a
tree branch as they slept, and then broke into a
nearby home where he beat and seriously in-
jured another woman.
Bundy also was convicted of murdering
Kimberly Leach, a 12-year-old Lake City girl who
d of and to death
two young women in the Chi Omega sorority
house on the’Florida State University campus in
in 1978. P aid he beat the
was from her school several weeks af-
ter the FSU attacks.
Bundy has been linked by the FBI to as many
as 36 killings of young women and girls, mostly in
urs 46: ap
"Utah, Colorado and Wasbington state.
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The handsome, ite Bundy, whose cas
was recently the subject ofa television movi
starring Mark Harmon, has been kept for th
past month in a death-watch holding cell at th
state prison in Starke. He is about 30 feet fror
the prison’s electric chair where Florida has exe
cuted 16 men since 1979. ~
Department of Corrections spokesman Vern
: Bradford said when he saw Bundy on Tuesda
morning, “he appeared: to be nervous, which
guess is pretty natural. It was his eyes more tha
anything else that: made me funk. he wa
But he said death watch otficers describe:
_Bundy as calm and quiet during the day. “Hi
hasn’t been too talkative,” Bradford said.
Bradford said several rumors were circulatin
on Tuesday before Bundy’s temporary stay wa
granted. One rumor had it that security had bee:
increased in the death watch area because o
fears that Bundy was planning an escape. ~
Finding Bundy gone with a good-by note left o1
his pillow would be embarrassing, Bradford said
but he said no extra.security precautions hac
See BUNDY on pageI2A~
/ PETERSBURG TIMES
SUNDAY, JULY 13, 1986
long to exacute’ someone in Floric
lectric chair is a long ind ‘complic ited.
Ue Susi
Chair from eB .
Once the Supreme. Court affirms a defendant’s
guilt, most defendants ask the U.S. Supreme Court, to
review the case. Add more years, even if the nation’s
highest court decides to reject the case.
.._. If the court. accepts. the case ‘for. consideration,
additional year's can pass. ~
” Once the direct. appeal is over and the U.S.
Supreme Court decides that death is a just penalty,
the inmate is entitled to a clemency hearing before
the governor and cabinet.
: A short time later, the governor signs a death
warrant, ordering execution on a particular date. But
no Florida inmate has ever been executed on the first
warrant. Traditionally, execution has come on the ©
second warrant, but some inmates have survived
three warrants.
The signing of a warrant is usually the signal for
defense attorneys to begin a series of legal efforts
called “collateral appeals.” Defendants are entitled to
go into state and federal courts and seek review of the
way their original case was handled.
* Incollateral appeals, the issue is.seldom the actual
guilt or innocence of a defendant. Instead the courts
look at the kind of defense a defendant had or address
other constitutional questions, such as the way the
jury was selected.
| At this point in the process, judges frequently
issue orders staying the execution that las been
ordered in the governor’s death warrant. Add more
years of delay. :
Judges who delay executions often are faced with
little choice. When confronted with a claim that a
person is about to be put to death unjustly, the judge
‘can do little else but stop the execution while reading
the voluminous record.
‘ Multiply this process by the number of inmates
who have been sentenced to die, and the reasons for
the delays become more apparent. Compounding the
problem is that an inmate is often broke and without
an attorney at the most critical legal moment in his
fe.
Most of those on death row must rely on volunteer
lawyers or public defenders for their direct appeals
and on the state’s newly organized office of collateral
appeals for help beyond the direct appeal process.
3. Florida has more inmates on death row than any
other state. Florida also has executed more inmates:
than any other state since the death penalty was
reinstated in 1976. Three have been executed this
year, 16 have died since 1976.
* Much of the reform now being sought by propo-
jents of the death’ penalty would force inmates to
* collateral action.
* inmates, but the issue was not raised in the Bundy- %
: _tion, Graham, a candidate for the U.S. Senate, had to
‘St. Petersburg Times — FRANK PETERS |
bring collateral appeals sooner. Now, attorneys for an}
inmate who has been sentenced to death usually wait}
until all other appeals are exhausted to bring a
“T can’t fault a defense lawyer for failing to rush up|
his client’s execution,” said Florida Supreme Court}
Justice James C. Adkins. But Adkins lays the blame for]
-much of thedelay’on the U-S: Suprenié Court:
the nation’s highest court keeps changing the ‘rules
that govern when a state may execute a prisoner.
“No one should be executed until their federal}
rights are considered,” said Adkins. “The - problem is is!
no one is sure just what those rights are.”
The latest change came last month when the U. s.
Supreme Court invalidated the Florida law used to
determine when an inmate is insane and cannot be
executed. Some officials expect that ruling to open up
an entirely new avenue of appeals for death row
Stano appeals.
The Florida Supreme Court has adopted rules that
now force inmates to bring collateral appeals in state
courts within two years of conviction. Efforts to get.
similar restrictions for federal appeals have been
unsuccessful.
~~“Attorney General Smith and Gov. Bob Graham
haye been among those supporting federal legislation
that would force most death row inmates to
collateral appeals within three years of conviction.
Smith said the legislation winds up: stalled each
year by U.S. Rep. Peter Rodino, D-New Jersey, a:
death penalty opponent who chairs the House Judicia-
ry Committee.
Last October, Florida opened an office to handl
collateral appeals for all death row inmates. Th
purpose was to speed up executions and insure thai
the inmates have attorneys for all possible appeals.
But that office is swamped with the backlog that:
developed in recent years.
“There aren’t going to be any more 10-year death
cases, ” said Larry H. Spalding, the lawyer in chargé
of the collateral appeals office.
Spalding said the big problem his office now faces
is predicting which of the 248 inmates on death TOW”
the governor will select for the next execution. ©
Spalding thinks the choice is often more political.
In selecting Bundy and Stano for a-double execu- ;
skip over a number of other death row inmates who*
have been there longer and could have been selected
to die first, Spalding said. .
“T think the real reason,” Spalding said, “was that
they knew Bundy and Stano would make spectacular
news.”
Graham signs
death warrant ;
for Bundy
The Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE. — Florida Gov.
Bob Graham on Wednesday ordered
serial sex killer Theodore Bundy to
die in the electric chair March 4 for
murdering two Florida State Univer-
sity sorority sisters.
, Graham signed the black-bordered
death warrant, Bundy’s first, and
Florida State Prison Superintendent
Richard Dugger immediately sched-
uled the execution for 7 a.m. March 4.
Bundy,'39, faces death for killing
Margaret Bowman, and Lisa Levy, 20,
as they slept in the Chi Omega soror-
ity house at Florida State University
on Jan. 15, 1978.
He missed his chance for a clemen-
cy hearing in December 1985, when
he fired his court-appointed attorney.
‘The former law student said his attor-
“ney was not prepared for the hearing
before Graham and the Cabinet.
Assistant State Attorney Jack
Poitinger told the state Board of Ex-
ecutive Clemency that Bundy may
have killed 100 or more women
across the. nation and he may kill
again unless heis executed.
“Everywhere he goes, death fol-
lows,” Poitinger said.
Bundy became one of the nation’s .
best-k
before he was captured in Florida, in
February 1978.
He had escaped about two ‘months
earlier from a jail in Colorado, where
he had been charged with killing a
vacationing Michigan nurse. At the
time, the FBI said he was wanted for
questioning in 36 sex-slayings in the
Northwest. -
Bundy also had been sentenced to
die for the 1978 murder.and rape of
Kimberly Diane Leach, 12, who was
kidnapped from a Lake City junior
high school.
Also scheduled for execution
March 4 is Aubrey Dennis Adams Jr.,
convicted of the 1978 slaying of an 8-
year-old girl.
Fri, May 23, 1986
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Bundy refused to see detectives who came to
Starke hoping Bundy would discuss three
- disappearances and two slayings he’s
blamed for in Utah. Bundy “said he was in no
position to heip them,” said prison super-
“intendent Richard Drugger.
Two courts refuse
to give Bundy a stay s.,
@ Jailer says he’d be willing to carry out
Bundy’s execution. Story on page 6B.
By DAN SEWELL
The Associated Press
MIAMI — Attorneys trying to block Theo-
dore Bundy’s impending execution lost
more rounds in court Monday, and the con-
victed serial killer rebuffed Utah detectives
making a last-ditch bid to solve cases he’s
tied to there.
Dade County Circuit Judge ‘Edward.
Cowart, who in 1979 sentenced Bundy to die ~
for the Jan. 15, 1978, slayings of two sleeping
sorority sisters, rejected the second stay of
execution request before him in six days.
‘That refusal sent Bundy’s attorneys back
to Tallahassee to seek a stay of Wednesday’s
execution from the state Supreme Court.
But the high court refused on 6-0 votes to
overturn the murder conviction and death
sentence, or to order a new clemency hear-
ing for Bundy. After 24% hours more, the
justices voted 5-1 to reject a 120-day stay to
give the defense time to file an amended
appeal and to give the state and the courts
time to respond.
Bundy’s attorneys late Monday afternoon
asked the U.S. Southern District. Court to
grant a stay. After the motion was filed here
at 4:08 p.m., it was assigned to recently ap-
pointed Judge William Zloch in Fort Lauder-
dale, some 20 miles north of Miami. Zloch,
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who received the 170 pages of defense mo-
tions and documents late Monday, was still
studying them at 9:30 p.m. and hadn’t said
when he would rule or schedule a hearing.
Bundy, convicted of three murders in
Florida and one kidnapping in Utah, is con-
sidered the top suspect in seven. to nine
slayings or unsolved disappearances in
Washington, five in Utah and and four in
Colorado. The FBI once said he was sought
for questioning in 36 sex slayings.
Cowart and the justices rejected stay re-
quests last week, saying Buhdy’s lawyers
first had to file a motion presenting new
grounds for overturning his convictions. At-
torneys James Coleman and Polly Nelson
worked through the weekend to prepare a
new appeal arguing that Bundy’s. defense
counsel was ineffective and that he was in-
competent to stand trial.
Also scheduled to die in the electric chair
Wednesday is 34-year-old Gerald Stano, who
like Bundy is linked to dozens of sex
slayings. His attorneys will appear before
his trial judge in Titusville this morning.
Immediately. after Cowart’s ruling, short-
ly after’ 9 a.m., Bundy’s attorneys filed mo-
tions with the Supreme Court calling for a
120-day stay, to give time for them to file an
amended appeal and for the state to re-
spond; for the justices to overturn Bundy’s
conviction, and for Gov. Bob Graham and
the Cabinet to hold a new clemency hearing.
Graham refused to delay a clemency hear-
ing in December 1985 even though Bundy,
who had dismissed his latest attorney, had
no representative. .
Cowart ruled Monday there had been
1979 hearings on the issues raised by
Bundy’s lawyers and that the new motion for
a stay offered no major, specific examples
to support its claims.
“There is no reasonable probability that
counsel errors, if proven, would result in
any sufficient likelihood of a change of the
outcome,” Cowart added. « .
Coleman cited that Bundy, now 39, had
refused to allow defense attorney Michael
. Minerva, who believed Bundy was mentally
; incompetent, to participate in a hearing on
« that issue .
Coleman said Bundy’s refusal was part of
an overall mentally incompetent behavior
that disrupted his own defense. :
Gregory Costas, an assistant state attor-
ney general, said the issues had already
been raised and rejected in an earlier ap-
peal, although Coleman said the points were
addressed only in generalities.
“The state is a little hard-pressed to un-
derstand how a man who constantly inter-
jected himself into the proceedings ... now
wants to repudiate all that, the results of his
own handiwork. Is he going to be co-counsel
in a new trial?” Costas asked.
Cowart added that repeatedly during the _
trial he had warned the two-time law school .
dropout that “a lawyer who represents him-
self has a fool for a client.”
Meanwhile, at Florida State Prison near
Starke, Bundy’s only visitor Monday was
Carole Ann Boone, who married Bundy dur-
ing a courtroom exchange of vows in his ;
1979 trial‘ for the murder of 12-year-old '
Kimberly Diane Leach, which'also drew 2‘
death sentence. Boone, who gaye birth to a‘
girl 4 years ago she claims Bundy fathered,
is allowed to visit him for two hours daily,
prison Superintendent Richard Dugger said.
Dugger said Bundy refused to see two Salt
Lake City sheriff's detectives who went to
Starke hoping he would discuss three disap-
pearances and two slayings he’s blamed for
in Utah. ~
“I sat him down and asked him about it,
and he said he was in no position to help
them,” Dugger said. . Mole,
He added that Bundy seemed to be his
usual self — “polite and cooperative” —
when he spoke to him last Friday. .
Sheriff's Detective Jerry Thompson said
by telephone from Salt Lake City that detec-
tives Garth Becksted. and Dennis Couch
would remain in the Starke area in case
Bundy changed his mind.
“We'd like to give the parents of these
girls some satisfaction. There may be a slim
possibility that the guy might have a change
of heart,” said Thompson, a lead investiga-
tor in Bundy’s 1975 kidnapping conviction in
Utah.
Thompson said he had asked Dugger ear-
lier to request a session with Bundy, but
Bundy turned him down.
