Ted Bundy Research Paper

Deserving the Death Penalty

Ted Bundy, a notorious serial killer deserved the death penalty because he was a danger to society. Bundy confessed to thirty-six homicides but some say he committed over one hundred. After being arrested multiple times he escaped custody twice and went back to killing. In 1979 he was sentenced with the death penalty for three murders; he was put to death in the electric chair ten years later. Ted Bundy was born in Burlington, Vermont in 1946 to Eleanor Cowell. Eleanor tried to keep him a secret because she was not married and did not know who the father was. “Bundy was under the impression that his mother was his sister and his grandparents were his parents” (Ted). She didn’t want the fact that he didn’t have a dad to affect his life, so she lied to him. As a child he wasn’t all that bad, although he was very interested in knives at a young age. High school was the turning point for Bundy, even though nobody knows if he started killing then. If his mother had told the truth and everything had worked out with his girlfriend Bundy would have been a much different person. Bundy got into some bad things in high school and it changed him forever. During his high school years he was shy but got into trouble for burglary. A common

He was arrested driving to Alabama. He was tried for two of the murders and was given the death penalty twice. Bundy’s execution date was set for March 4, 1986. Once criminals are given the death penalty they go into an appeal crazed mode. Bundy started appealing everything and it delayed the execution three years. “The 1989 execution of Ted Bundy cost Florida taxpayers an estimated $5 million” (Executing Prisoners). The death penalty opens many doors for appealing and often results in delaying the execution and costing the state a lot of money. The death penalty is an expensive process but for some criminals, like Ted Bundy, it is