                 Cite as: 582 U. S. ____ (2017)            1

                          Per Curiam

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
CHARLOTTE JENKINS, WARDEN v. PERCY HUTTON
   ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED 

    STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT

              No. 16–1116. Decided June 19, 2017


  PER CURIAM.
  Respondent Percy Hutton accused two friends, Derek
Mitchell and SamuelSimmons Jr., of stealing a sewing
machine, in which he had hidden $750. Mitchell and
Simmons denied the accusation, but Hutton remained
suspicious. On the night of September 16, 1985, he lured
the pair into his car and, after pointing a gun at each,
drove them around town in search of the machine. By
night’s end, Hutton had recovered his sewing machine,
Simmons was in the hospital with two gunshot wounds to
the head, and Mitchell was nowhere to be found. Sim-
mons survived, but Mitchell was found dead a few weeks
later, also having been shot twice.
  More than 30 years ago, an Ohio jury convicted Hutton
of aggravated murder, attempted murder, and kidnaping.
In connection with the aggravated murder conviction, the
jury made two additional findings: that Hutton engaged in
“a course of conduct involving the . . .