Beauford White v. Louie L. Wainwright, as Secretary, Department of Corrections, State of Florida

GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Beauford White is a Florida state prisoner under a death sentence following conviction of six counts of first degree murder committed in 1978. The district court denied habeas corpus relief. We affirm.

The major issue concerns application of Enmund v. Florida, 458 U.S. 782, 102 S.Ct. 3368, 73 L.Ed.2d 1140 (1982), which prescribed constitutional limits on imposing the death sentence for murder upon a defendant who has participated in a felony in the course of which the murder was committed by other participants. In the Enmund decision the Supreme Court held…