‘Can you spell lynching?’: lawyer’s shocking note in Texas execution case
by Ed Pilkington from on (#68HQ5)
Appeals court submission exposes racial toxicity in case of Black man John Balentine, sentenced to death for 1999 triple murder
In April 1999, John Balentine, a Black man on trial for murder in Amarillo, Texas, sat before an all-white jury as they deliberated whether he should live or die.
Should he be given a life sentence, in which case he would likely end his days behind prison bars? Or should they send him to death row to await execution?
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