Askari Abdullah Muhammad v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections

PRYOR, Circuit Judge:

Askari Muhammad murdered a prison guard, Richard James Burke, by stabbing him more than a dozen times with a knife made from a sharpened serving spoon, and a Florida trial court convicted Muhammad of first-degree murder and sentenced him to death. When he murdered Burke, Muhammad was already serving a death sentence for his separate murders of a Miami couple. State and federal courts have affirmed his death sentence on direct and collateral review.

On October 21, 2013, the Governor of Florida signed a death warrant for Muhammad, who is scheduled to be executed on January…