The mothers of three teens shot in the head as they slept 25 years ago watched on yesterday as . 
John Balentine, 54, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas, for the January 1998 shooting of Edward Mark Caylor, 17, Kai Brooke Geyer, 15, and Steven Watson, 15, at a home in Amarillo.  
John Balentine was given a lethal injection yesterday for shooting three teenagers in the head 25 years ago
Prosecutors said all three were shot once in the head as they slept. 
Balentine, whose attorneys had argued that his trial was marred by racial bias,  and the second in as many days.
The mothers of the three victims watched on as Balentine appeared jovial in the death chamber, asking if someone standing near the gurney could remove the sheet covering the lower two-thirds of his body 'and massage my feet.' Then he chuckled. 
Caylor's sister, who was among the witnesses watching him die, was Balentine's former girlfriend, and prosecutors said the shootings stemmed from a feud between Caylor and Balentine. 
Balentine, however, argued that Caylor and others had threatened his life over his interracial relationship.

Balentine, who confessed to the murders, is black, while the three victims were white.
Robert Fratta (centre), 65, was put to death on January 10 and Wesley Ruiz, 43, on February 1
After a brief prayer from a spiritual adviser who held Balentine's left foot with his right hand, the prisoner gave a short statement thanking friends for supporting him. 
Then he turned his head to look through a window at seven relatives of his three murder victims and apologized.
'I hope you can find in your heart to forgive me,' he said.
The mothers of each of the three victims were among the witnesses a few feet from him.
He took two breaths as the lethal dose of the powerful sedative pentobarbital began flowing through intravenous needles in his arms, snored twice, yawned and began snoring again loudly.

The snores - 11 of them -became progressively quieter, then stopped.
At 6.36 pm, 15 minutes after the drugs began, a physician pronounced him dead. 
The victims' witnesses then shared high-fives before leaving the death chamber.
They declined to speak with reporters afterward.
One of his trial attorneys said Balentine turned down a plea agreement that would have sentenced him to life in prison because the racist threats he received made him afraid of being attacked or killed while incarcerated.
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday declined an appeal from Balentine's attorneys to halt the execution so that his claims of racial bias could be properly reviewed. 
It had been unclear whether the execution would take place after a judge withdrew the date and warrant last week - as Balentine's attorneys had not been properly notified of the injection. 
Balentine is the sixth inmate to be put to death in the US so far this year and the second in as many days. 
The death chamber and the steel bars of the viewing room are seen at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas
The mothers of the murdered boys watched on at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville
In 2022, 18 men were put to death in the US, according to a report by the .

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