‘Can you spell lynching?’: lawyer’s shocking note in Texas execution case

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? Continue reading...
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