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WILLIAM GLENN ROGERS,
Petitioner-Appellant,
v.
TONY MAYS, Warden,
Respondent-Appellee.
   No. 19-5427
On Petition for Rehearing En Banc
United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee at Nashville.
No. 3:13-cv-00141—Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr., Chief District Judge.
Argued En Banc: March 8, 2023
Decided and Filed: June 5, 2023
Before: SUTTON, Chief Judge; MOORE, CLAY, GIBBONS, GRIFFIN, KETHLEDGE,
STRANCH, THAPAR, BUSH, LARSEN, NALBANDIAN, READLER, MURPHY, DAVIS,
and MATHIS, Circuit Judges.


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OPINION
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THAPAR, Circuit Judge. In 1996, nine-year-old Jacqueline Beard left her mother’s watchful gaze to pick blackberries. William Glenn Rogers made sure she never returned. After stalking Jackie for days, he kidnapped, raped, and murdered her. Then he disposed of her body in the woods, where hunters found her remains four months later.

At trial, a jury found Rogers guilty and sentenced him to death. Since then, Rogers has spent more than two decades challenging his conviction and sentence. In a thoughtful and exhaustive opinion, Chief Judge Waverly Crenshaw denied Rogers’s federal habeas petition. We affirm.