Dennis Emerson, Cross-Appellee v. Richard B. Gramley, Warden, Pontiac Correctional Center

POSNER, Chief Judge.

Dennis Emerson (also known as Dennis Jackson) was convicted by a jury in an lili-*900nois state court of a murder committed in 1979 when he was 27 years old, was sentenced to death by the same jury, won a new trial from the state supreme court for trial error, People v. Emerson, 97 Ill.2d 487, 74 Ill.Dec. 11, 455 N.E.2d 41 (1983), at his second trial was again convicted and sentenced to death, appealed unsuccessfully, People v. Emerson, 122 Ill.2d 411,119 Ill.Dec. 250, 522 N.E.2d 1109 (1987), failed to obtain any relief in state postconviction proceedings, People v. Emerson,…