David Wayne Spence v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1996-03-29

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EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge: In 1982, David Wayne Spence tortured and stabbed to death three teenagers in Waco, Texas. He has been convicted and sentenced *992 to die for two of the murders in Texas courts and has been denied habeas corpus relief by the federal district court. Spence now seeks r…

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