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The execution brought a sigh of relief in the LaConner, Wash., home of Vivian Rancourt, whose daughter, Susan, was among Bundy's victims. "Good," Mrs. Rancourt said when told Bundy was dead. "The only thing I can say is thank God, it's finally over."
Forty-two people witnessed the execution from behind a plexiglass partition. They included 12 official witnesses, among them a state representative and three state attorneys; 12 reporters; and 18 other people, mostly corrections officials.
More than 100 people supporting the execution and about two dozen against milled around outside the Florida State Prison. At 7 a.m. a small group of death penalty supporters lit sparklers and firecrackers and cheered, while opponents silently held candles and then held a memorial service.
Within a half hour of the execution, a hearse carried Bundy's body out of the prison to Gainesville for an autopsy.
The execution was the 20th in Florida since it resumed executions in 1979; 106 murderers have been put to death in the United States since capital punishment was restored in 1976.