Bonin

William George Bonin, a California state prisoner awaiting execution at San Quentin State Prison, appeals from the district court’s denials of two petitions for writ of habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 , and an order dismissing a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 . We have jurisdiction over these timely appeals pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §8 1291, 2253, and we affirm.

I

The lengthy procedural history of this case and the grisly facts underlying it are discussed in Bonin v. Calderon, 59 F.3d 815 (9th Cir.1995) (Bonin II), cert. denied, - U.S. -, 116 S.Ct. 718 , 133 L.Ed.2d 671 (1996). In that decision, we denied Bonin’s first set of habeas corpus petitions, which challenged convictions and death sentences imposed as a result of separate trials held in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Id., aff'g, Bonin v. Vasquez, 807 F.Supp. 589 (C.D.Cal. 1992) (Los Angeles County); Bonin v. Vasquez, 794 F.Supp. 957 (C.D.Cal.1992) (Orange County). On February 6, 1996, Bo-nin again filed two habeas corpus petitions with the California Supreme Court, which denied them on February 15, 1996. Bonin then filed two emergency petitions in the federal district court for the Central District…