John Lezell Balentine took his final appeal to the Supreme Court, arguing that his death sentence should be reassessed in light of new evidence of juror misconduct and racial bias. The justices declined to block the execution in a brief, unsigned order with no recorded dissents.
The court’s order denying Balentine’s appeal was the second time in two days that the court green-lighted an execution without comment.
The Supreme Court should NOT be involved in state governance, to include executions. This has been a terrible precedent and the Supreme Court should recuse themselves from all state executions
in perpetuity.
