Morales

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

MICHAEL ANGELO MORALES, 

Petitioner, v.  No. 06-70884 STEVEN W. ORNOSKI, Acting ORDER Warden, for the California State Prison at San Quentin, Respondent.  Filed February 19, 2006

Before: Andrew J. Kleinfeld, M. Margaret McKeown, and Raymond C. Fisher, Circuit Judges.

ORDER

Michael Angelo Morales, a California state prisoner sched- uled to be executed on February 21, 2006 at 12:01 a.m., has filed a request for stay of execution and an application for leave to file a second or successive (“SOS”) petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b). The Supreme Court of California denied Morales’s most recent habeas peti- tion on February 15, 2006. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2244, and we deny the applications Morales now presents to this court.

Morales was convicted of first degree murder with premed- itation and two special circumstances — intentional killing by 1 In a separate opinion, we deny Morales’ appeal from the district court’s denial of a stay of execution pursuant to his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim. See Morales v. Hickman, ___…