OWENS, Chief Judge:
Petitioner Son H. Fleming was convicted on January 26, 1977, and sentenced to death for the murder of Edward Giddens, the police chief of Ray City, Georgia. He is scheduled to be executed on June 27, 1986, at 7:00 p.m. The Eleventh Circuit summarized the circumstances surrounding the brutal murder of Chief Giddens as follows:
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