Eugene Issac Pitts v. Larry Norris, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction

RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge.

Eugene Pitts, who is serving a sentence of life in prison without parole, appeals the District Court’s 1 denial of his third petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The Court concluded that the claims raised in the petition were procedurally barred. We affirm.

I

We begin with a brief overview of the facts leading to Pitts’s conviction and ultimately to this appeal. In January of 1979, Pitts abducted Dr. Bernard Jones from his home and shot him once in the side of the head and three times in the back of the head, killing him. That same year, Pitts was charged with…