An inmate convicted of killing three Amarillo teenagers while they slept faces execution Wednesday.
Balentine’s attorneys allege the jury foreman, Dory England, held racist views and used racial slurs during his life and bullied other jurors who had wanted a life sentence into changing their minds.
England also said when another juror “started going off about this Black guy killing these white teenagers ... I told him if he continued with his prejudice, I would have to report it to the judge.” Balentine’s attorneys also allege his trial lawyers referred to the sentencing proceedings in a note as a “justifiable lynching.”
Balentine confessed to the murders. Sherrod said Balentine had turned down a plea agreement that would have sentenced him to life in prison because he was afraid of being attacked or killed in prison due to racist threats he had received.
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