Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit August 26, 1994, 93-2922 (Steven Parkus v. Paul K. Delo)

BRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge.

Steven Parkus, a mentally disturbed man raised in state institutions since age four, killed Mark Steffenhagen by strangulation while both were incarcerated in a Missouri prison. A jury convicted Parkus of first degree murder and sentenced him to death.