Varnall Weeks v. Ronald E. Jones, Commissioner of Corrections

BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

This habeas case is before us for the second time. Petitioner requests emergency stay of execution and certificate of probable cause. We DENY

I. RELEVANT BACKGROUND

Varnall Weeks was sentenced to death for his October 1, 1981, killing of Mark Anthony Batts, a Tuskegee Institute veterinary student.1 We affirmed the district court’s denial of Weeks’s first petition for habeas corpus relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, and the Supreme Court denied certiorari review on February 27, 1995. Weeks v. Jones, 26 F.3d 1030 (11th Cir.1994), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 115 S.Ct. 1258, 131…