Richard Jordan v. Christopher Epps, Commissioner

Petitioner-Appellant Richard Jordan appeals from the district court’s denial of a certificate of appealability (COA) for ha-beas corpus relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Jordan was convicted of capital murder committed in the course of a kidnapping and was sentenced to death on four separate occasions. Following the first three convictions, Jordan challenged his death sentence successfully, was retried, and was again re-sentenced to death. In 1991, on remand from the third successful challenge to his sentence, Jordan entered into an agreement with the prosecution to serve a sentence of…