(ORDER LIST:  531 U.S.)


                           WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2000


                                CERTIORARI DENIED


00-7092     GOINS, CHRISTOPHER V. ANGELONE, DIR., VA DOC
(00A458)

                  The application for stay of execution of sentence of death 

            presented to the Chief Justice and by him referred  to the Court 

            is denied.  The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

                  Justice Stevens and Justice Ginsburg would grant the 

            application for stay of execution.