James Broadnax has spent nearly half his life on Texas death row for the 2008 killings of Stephen Swan, 26, and Matthew Butler, 28, outside their Garland music studio. A Dallas County jury sentenced ...

The mother of Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed died after years of publicly advocating for her son's innocence claims.

Time is running out in the fight to stop the execution of a convicted killer. James Broadnax, 37, is scheduled to die by ...

The Texas death row case of James Broadnax highlights growing concerns over the use of rap lyrics as evidence in ...

With 42 days until his scheduled execution, James Broadnax filed a new appeal in his capital murder conviction on Thursday with a signed confession from his codefendant claiming he, not Broadnax, had ...

Experts say treating rap lyrics as diary entries minimizes their artistic value while playing on negative racial stereotypes ...

A Texas death row inmate who killed his ex-girlfriend and her 8-year-old son used his final moments before execution Wednesday to apologize to the woman’s surviving son — whom he stabbed 25 times ...

Texas’ highest criminal court has overturned the death sentence of a Harris County man who was on death row for nearly half a century.