Entries tagged with “Demarius Cummings”

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…