GACY v. PAGE

No. 94-2044.

24 F.3d 887 (1994)

John Wayne GACY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Thomas PAGE, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 9, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory A. Adamski, Karen Conti, Adamski & Conti; John C. Greenlees, Durante & Greenlees, Chicago, IL, and David J. Keefe, Waukegan, IL, for petitioner-appellant.

Arleen C. Anderson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of the Atty. Gen., Chicago, IL, for respondent-appellee.

Before EASTERBROOK, MANION, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Illinois plans to execute John Wayne Gacy in less than twelve hours, at 12:01 A.M. Tuesday morning. Gacy asks us to issue a stay so that we may review the appeal he has just filed from an order denying his second federal petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The district court not only denied the petition (filed on May 2, 1994) but also declined to issue a certificate of probable cause to appeal, concluding that the petition is frivolous...

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