<p>Two teenagers accused in the execution-style killing of a classmate both have pleaded guilty, days before their cases were scheduled to go to trial.</p><p>Kristopher Lee Baxter, 16, received a life sentence after pleading guilty Monday to felony murder for fatally shooting Jones Sinous on May 7, 2003. Baxter will be eligible for parole in 14 years.</p><p>Antwan Derrel Pope, 16, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit aggravated assault for his role in the killing.</p><p>Baxter and Pope were 14-year-old students at Osborne High School when they got into a dispute with the 18-year-old Sinous over something he allegedly stole from the two boys.</p><p>During their lunch break on the day of the murder, Baxter and Pope lured Sinous to an apartment complex behind the school's football field, where Baxter pulled out a .22-caliber handgun, prosecutors said. Baxter shot Sinous once in the leg, once in the back while he ran away and once in the head when he was on the ground.</p><p>"It's just really a senseless killing," said Cobb County Assistant District Attorney Lance Cross.</p><p>Prosecutors said Pope discarded the weapon, and police later found it wrapped in plastic foam and duct tape in nearby trash bin.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x2866434)</p>
