SWEET!! Good find JLR.
In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Balentine's petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis was DENIED.
Stay of execution still pending.
(Stay of execution still pending)
Arkansas man on Texas death row loses high court appeal
A convicted killer set to die this week in Texas has lost an appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court.
The justices, without comment Monday, refused a request to review the case of 42-year-old John Balentine.
The former auto mechanic and laborer, who’s a native of Jackson County, Ark., is scheduled for lethal injection Wednesday evening in Huntsville for a triple slaying in Amarillo in 1998.
His lawyer had asked the high court to review arguments that his trial lawyers didn’t adequately inform jurors about Balentine’s childhood of poverty, violence and abuse as they were considering punishment.
Balentine still has other appeals in the courts, including another request to the Supreme Court to stop the punishment because earlier appeals
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...#ixzz1PAjxxs7Z
Killer of 3 teens in Amarillo set to die Wednesday; 1st of 2 executions in 2 days in Texas
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — After six months on the lam, an ex-con wanted for a triple killing in the Texas Panhandle got pulled over in Houston — 600 miles away — for driving a car with a broken taillight.
John Balentine gave the traffic officer a false name but the alias showed up as one used by the person wanted for fatally shooting three teenagers in January 1998 in Amarillo.
Now the 42-year-old Balentine is set for lethal injection Wednesday evening in Huntsville. He'd be the fifth Texas prisoner executed this year and the first of two scheduled to die on consecutive days this week in the nation's busiest death penalty state.
His attorneys are hoping to put off the execution, arguing in the courts he had shoddy legal help in earlier appeals.
http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/vi...xas-Execution/
Amarillo murderer granted stay of execution
AMARILLO, TX - An Amarillo man set to be put to death today has been granted a stay of execution.
Just moments ago, federal judges decided they would hear John Balentine's attorney's arguments on how he received poor legal help in 1999 for his capital murder trial.
Balentine was convicted for the January 1998 killing of 17 year old Mark Caylor, 15 year old Kai Geyer and 15 year old Steven Watson.
This stay of execution is the second to be granted for the 42 year old convicted murder. The first one happened before his scheduled execution in 2009.
An uncle of Mark Caylor, one of Balentine's victims spoke with NewsChannel 10 this afternoon.
He says the stay being granted is just another example of how slow the legal system is here in the United States.
http://www.newschannel10.com/story/1...rillo-murderer
BALENTINE, JOHN L. V. TEXAS
The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Scalia and by him referred to the Court is granted pending the disposition of the petition for a writ of certiorari. Should the petition for a writ of certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event the petition for a writ of certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the issuance of the mandate of this Court.
They will probably deny cert and he shall be back on the schedule before long.
Very disappointed that death row inmates continue to get these stays, if you're guilty of the crime, then they need to get executions done within a 2 year period.....
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