Title: How Ted Bundy’s Education Facilitated His Career as a Serial Killer - Biography
Headings: How Ted Bundy’s Education Facilitated His Career as a Serial Killer
How Ted Bundy’s Education Facilitated His Career as a Serial Killer
Bundy majored in psychology as an undergrad
He studied law at the University of Puget Sound
Bundy also attended the University of Utah Law School
Bundy acted as his own lawyer
He never received his law degree

Content: He never received his law degree
Bundy was reportedly surprised by the outcomes of his Florida trials. Despite his education, he was neither smart enough nor a good enough lawyer, to accurately assess the strengths of the prosecution's case and his likelihood of conviction. He'd never finished law school, and even before dropping out had been too busy committing multiple murders to hit the books. Bundy had turned down a plea deal with Florida prosecutors that would have resulted in a life sentence instead of capital punishment. Though appeals kept his execution from being carried out for years, and Bundy tried to trade information about the murders he'd committed in order to delay the sentence, his time eventually ran out. On January 24, 1989, he was put to death by electric chair. In 1979, the judge who'd handed Bundy a death sentence made the comment, "It's a tragedy for this court to see such a total waste, I think, of humanity that I have experienced in this court. You're a bright young man. You would have made a good lawyer and I would have loved to have you practice in front of me, but you went another way, partner." Of course, Bundy wasted much more than his own life and education.