CARNES, Circuit Judge:
Eric Scott Branch was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Susan Morris, a young college student, whom he robbed and savagely beat and stomped and strangled and sexually assaulted and then left her nude body dying or dead in the woods. See Branch v. State,
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