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Dceision Due Soon By Dave Von electric chair began July 31 y7y when he was sentenced to die for the murders of two Florida State University women bludgeoned in their sleep at the Chi omega sorority house On Feb 12 1980 Bundy was again sentenced to die for a Lake City Fla kidnap-murde- r Appeals in the two cases have crisscrossed through the courts in alternating spurts Now the Chi Omega case is stalled the Lake City case is advancing In a last hold attempt to save himself Bundy permitted his lawyers to make the one argument he swore he would never allow that he is not of sound mind and that his mental illness should have rendered him incompetent to stand trial It wasn't an easy decision for the arrogant Bundy “Ted would ra'her die than admit to any weakness of mind” says Ann Rule an old friend Or as Bundy once put it “It really 1 don’t w ant to tears me apart lay myself out for the whole world to see ” Convinced that it was his only hope Bundy submitted to the psychiatric analysis of Dr Dorothy Lewis a professor at Yale and New York University In the most extensive examination ever of Prisoner 069063 1 Drt-h- Knight Ridder Newspaper “Does it worry me No If it j go- ti's yui ny tu iwpYii tny iu I've alu'ays had the death finally It s just a matter of knotting uhen " Theodore Robert Bundy The hour approaches -- The nation clogged inefficient death-penaltmachinery grinds toward a rare resolution - The only execution that matter in the minds of - million loom from the mists of delay Ted Bundy an unforgettable killer amid the forgotten wreckage America’s human of Bundy swol- - len Death Row wails stoically on his petition to the Supreme Court of the United States Word from the court should come early next year True no appeal in today's America is final until the hooded executioner trips the switch The fine points of the law of capital punishment are constantly shifting I Now though legal experts are saying what they have never said before: that the time is close the matter has matured This is Bundy's last stand At 4 48 p m Tuesday Nov 15 — 10 years and 280 days after Kimberly Diane Leach disappeared from school on a rainy morning m Lake City Florida — an exhausted lawyer delivered the petition to the clerk of the court in the District of Columbia Musty‘ with tradition the pleading began: Petitioner Theodore Robert Bundy respectfully prays that a writ ” of certiorari The nine esteemed justices are under no obligation to consider Bundy's pleas which have already been denied by judges in Orlando and Tallahassee Fla and Atlanta Should the court respond in a single word — “Denied” — the governor of Florida will be free to sign a death warrant — Bundy’s fourth but the first that is likely to matter Then the convicted killer of three suspected killer of 36 will be left with nothing but moves of desperation playing chess with nothing but pawns Bundy’s slow walk toward the death-penalt- y Lewis interviewed Bundy Lewis he did so grudgingly Entering a courtroom in Orlando a television reporter asked the judge if the hearing would be a waste of tune ‘ “Absolutely the judge replied Says Florida’s lead attorney on the rase Assistant Attorney General Mark Menser "This thing has been a fraud from the beginning " “The word is that Ted v ill go early next year — late winter or spring” says Michael Radelet a University of Florida sociologist and an authority on capital punishment The common wisdom among experts is that the Su- death-penalt- y preme Court will deny Bundy’s petition and Bob Martinez the signer of 61 death warrants in 24 months as Florida s governor will promptly order Bundy ’s death At that point chances are slim the courts would Intercede Bundy s lawyers acknowledge they’ve already made their best arguments What s more even the courts cannot be completely immune to the hatred Bundy inspires “I'll buckle up when Bundy does” read a popular bumjver slicker during the debate over mandatory seat belts Michael Try son a Miami civil law-ye- r proclaims his feelings on the peisonakzed license plate of hit See G-- Column 1 STitniuf Sunday Morning December IB 19B8 Section (J last minute Christmas shopping ffor your AND UNDEQ TOP QUALITY 30 DAY Everything NAME BRAND LAYAWAY (Rtfiiar pric itu oily') manic-depressiv- APPAREL AND ACCESSORIES ft TUES SENIOR CITIZEN MON 20 ltm) n Family Center 10-- 9 RI SAT EVERYDAY! 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