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SANCHEZ-VELASCO v. SECRETARY OF DEPT. OF CORR.

No. 01-13969.

287 F.3d 1015 (2002)

Rigoberto SANCHEZ-VELASCO, Petitioner-Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 2, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Todd Gerald Scher (Court-Appointed), Office of Capital Collateral Representative, Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Sandra Sue Jaggard, Miami, FL, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before CARNES, HULL and WILSON, Circuit Judges.

CARNES, Circuit Judge:

Rigoberto Sanchez-Velasco is a Florida death row inmate. He is under sentence of death for the brutal rape and murder of an eleven year old girl who had been left in his care by her mother. While on death row for that crime, he has murdered two inmates. As he explained to the district court in this proceeding: "I hate people, I don't like them, I want to kill people. You understand?" When asked by an interviewer how he made the shank he used...

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