PER CURIAM.
Appellant Payne appeals from a summary judgment entered by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1976).
Our review of this record indicates that at his state court trial, appellant was convicted by a jury on charges of murder and rape of an eight-year old girl and sentenced to death by electrocution upon each of those charges; these death...
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