Keith B. Canaan v. Daniel R. McBride Warden

WOOD, Circuit Judge.

In the early morning hours of December 29, 1985, a police officer arrived at Lori Bullock’s apartment in Evansville, Indiana. The apartment had been ransacked and the officer found Bullock dead, with a butcher knife protruding from her throat and almost two dozen stab wounds. Keith B. Canaan was arrested two days later and charged with the crime. A jury convicted Canaan of murder, burglary, and attempted criminal deviate conduct. At the sentencing hearing that • followed, Canaan’s counsel presented no mitigating evidence. Faced only with two aggravating factors, the jury…