William L. Wiley v. Steve W. Puckett, Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary, and Mike Moore, Attorney General

KING, Circuit Judge:

William L. Wiley, a Mississippi prisoner under a sentence of death, appeals from the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. He raises six distinct issues for our review, including a claim that his sentence should be invalidated because it was based in part on the aggravating circumstance that the murder was “especially heinous, atrocious or cruel.” After hearing oral argument, 1 we reserved decision until the Supreme Court determined whether Clemons v. Mississippi, 494 U.S. 738, 110 S.Ct. 1441, 108 L.Ed.2d 725 (1990), the case upon which the…