Dewayne C. Britz v. Roger D. Cowan, Warden

POSNER, Chief Judge.

Dewayne Britz was sentenced to death in an Illinois state court in 1985 for murdering a woman who had given him a ride when his truck broke down. After his conviction and sentence were affirmed and state postconviction relief denied, People v. Britz, 123 Ill.2d 446, 124 Ill.Dec. 15, 528 N.E.2d 703 (Ill.1988), 174 Ill.2d 163, 220 Ill.Dec. 388, 673 N.E.2d 300 (Ill.1996), he sought federal habeas corpus, lost in the district court, and appeals. He challenges both his conviction and his sentence, but we cannot reach the first challenge. It is to the exclusion at the guilt…