Stephen K. Johns v. Michael Bowersox, Superintendent of Potosi Correctional Center

WOLLMAN, Chief Judge.

Stephen K.-Johns was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death for the 1982 murder of a gas station attendant. He appeals the district court’s3 denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.

I

The evidence adduced at trial established the following sequence of events. In January of 1982 Johns told David Smith that he wanted to rob the Onyx gas station in St. Louis, Missouri. Johns told Smith that he “never left any witnesses.” In early February of 1982, Johns told Linda Klund, an acquaintance of some four and one-half years’…