Richard Greenway v. Charles Ryan

OPINION

We continue to consider issues raised in Richard Greenway’s first habeas petition challenging his 1989 conviction and death sentence for the brutal execution-style killing of a mother and daughter in 1988. In our first opinion, we affirmed the denial of relief on many claims, but remanded others. See generally Greenway v. Schriro, 653 F.3d 790 (9th Cir. 2011).

Included among the claims we denied was the contention that the state trial court and the state supreme court, by failing to consider all mitigating circumstances, had violated the United States Supreme Court’s teachings in…