William Lyle WORATZECK, Petitioner, v. Terry L. STEWART, Director, Department of Corrections, Respondent

Woratzeck, an Arizona state prisoner sentenced to death tomorrow morning at 12:05 a.m., seeks permission to file a successive petition for habeas corpus in the district court. The Supreme Court of Arizona denied all relief this afternoon, June 24, 1997. We now have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2244, and we deny his motion.

I

We previously detailed the crimes for which Woratzeck was convicted, and need not do so again here. See Woratzeck v. Stewart, 97 F.3d 329 (9th Cir.1996), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 117 S.Ct. 1443, 137 L.Ed.2d 549 (1997). Woratzeck filed this motion on June 20,1997. Thus, the…