Legal Opinion
Willie Leroy Jones v. Edward W. Murray, Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided October 1, 1991No. 90-4004PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WIDENER, Circuit Judge:
Willie Leroy Jones challenges a Virginia state court judgment sentencing him to death. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia denied his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.
In January 1984, Jones was tried by a jury in York County, Virginia and found guilty of the capital murders of Graham and Myra Adkins. 1 Pursuant to Va.Code Ann. § 19.2-264.2, the jury on each count found that Jones’ “conduct in committing the offense is outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman in that it involved torture, depravity of mind,…
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