Edward Earl Johnson v. Donald Cabana, Acting Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections

In this appeal from the denial of his third petition for federal habeas corpus relief based on claimed violations of the Constitution of the United States, Edward Earl Johnson seeks to interdict the writ of the Supreme Court of Mississippi ordering his execution on May 20,1987. After considering the pleadings in all of the successive collateral proceedings instituted in the Supreme Courts of the United States and of the State of Mississippi, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, and this court, we conclude that Johnson’s present counsel have failed to…