Coleman v. Saffle

LOGAN, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner, Charles Troy Coleman, is under a sentence of death as a result of an Oklahoma state court conviction for first-degree murder. In this, his second federal petition for habeas corpus relief, Coleman argues that this court must vacate his death sentence because of the following alleged constitutional errors: (1) the sentencing jury found one of five aggravating circumstances was present — that the murder was “especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel” — after it was instructed in an unconstitutional manner; (2) this court’s invalidation of Oklahoma’s application of…