Entries tagged with “James Broadnax”
Mar 31, 2026
Texas Prisoner Asks Courts to Intervene in Scheduled Execution as New Confession Raises Serious Doubt Over Original Conviction
James Broadnax, a Texas death-sentenced prisoner, is scheduled to be executed on April 30, 2026. He was convicted in 2009 by a Dallas County jury for the murders of two music producers, Stephen Swan and Matthew Butler, who were shot and killed outside their recording studio in 2008. On March 19, 2026, a little more than a month before his scheduled execution, attorneys for Mr. Broadnax filed a new appeal and a sworn affidavit from his codefendant and cousin Demarius Cummings, in which Mr.
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Mar 12, 2021
Texas Federal Appeals Court Refuses to Consider Suppressed Evidence of Dallas Prosecutors’ Race-Based Jury Selection Practices, Upholds Conviction and Death Sentence
A federal appeals court has permitted a Texas district court to dismiss a death-row prisoner’s claim that Dallas prosecutors unconstitutionally struck Black jurors in his case without considering evidence of racial discrimination that prosecutors had withheld from the defense during state court litigation on the issue. The February 8, 2021 ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upholds the conviction and death sentence imposed on James Broadnax for his participation in the…