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WILEY v. PUCKETT

No. 90-1599.

969 F.2d 86 (1992)

William L. WILEY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Steve W. PUCKETT, Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary, and Mike Moore, Attorney General, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Amended August 5, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Coleman S. Hicks, Steven Semeraro, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., T.H. Freeland IV, Freeland, Freeland & Wilson, Oxford, Miss., for petitioner-appellant.

Marvin L. White, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Mike Moore, Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for respondents-appellees.

Before POLITZ, Chief Judge, KING and GARWOOD, Circuit Judges.

AMENDED OPINION

KING, Circuit Judge:

William L. Wiley, a Mississippi prisoner under a sentence of death, appeals from the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. He raises six distinct issues for our review, including a claim that his sentence should be invalidated because it was based in part on the aggravating circumstance that the murder was "especially heinous, atrocious or cruel." After hearing oral argument,

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