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Execution nears as juror cites new confession in push to stop death row case

Time is running out in the fight to stop the execution of a convicted killer. James Broadnax, 37, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on April 30 for a 2008 double murder ou...

Botswana: Death Row Cell Where Dawn Is Memory and Grave Is Roommate

[Botswana Daily News] Gaborone -- A heavily guarded metal door swings open. Entrance is restricted and monitored by guards.

A Looming Execution Raises Questions of Race, Responsibility, and Rap

Curtis Riser had some concerns about the problem of wrongful convictions. He wasn’t the only potential juror to raise this point ahead of the 2009 capital murder trial of James Bro...

Death row inmate who believes he’s ‘immortal’ avoids execution

John Richard Wood, 56, has been in prison for more than 25 years after killing a state trooper in South Carolina.

Pinal County Attorney Seeking Death for Inmate Accused of 3 Murders

Exclusive: The Only Woman on Death Row in Mississippi Alleges New Civil Rights Violations in Confinement

Lisa Jo Chamberlin, who spoke to a Mississippi reporter in January about her experiences as the only woman on the state’s death row and her allegations of cruel and unusual punishm...

D4vd Charged With Special Circumstances Murder, Eligible For Death Penalty

D4vd faces the death penalty after prosecutors charge him with murdering 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez.

LETTER: Defense attorneys against death row

They ignore certain factors.

DA to seek death warrants for 3 convicted killers

Zane Floyd, Donald Sherman and Sterling Atkins have exhausted their appeals, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said, and prosecutors will ask District Court judges for w...

Prosecutors used hip-hop lyrics to help sentence a man to death: ‘This only happens to rap music’

James Broadnax was a teenager when a jury convicted him of capital murder, with his rap lyrics presented as evidence he posed a threat of ‘future dangerousness’ James Broadnax has...

Rappers Urge Supreme Court to Intervene in Texas Execution Case

*A Texas man’s scheduled execution has ignited a fierce national debate over whether rap lyrics belong in a courtroom — and some of the biggest names in hip-hop are making their vo...

"He Was in Agony": Tennessee Issues 1-Year Stay for Tony Carruthers After Botched Execution Attempt

Tennessee death row prisoner Tony Carruthers was issued a one-year stay of execution last Thursday after prison officials were unable to find a backup injection vein in a botched e...

Texas inmate James Broadnax faces Thursday execution amid final appeal arguing he wasn’t the shooter

The death row inmate has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution, pointing to a codefendant’s confession in the shooting death of two people.

Former Oklahoma death row inmate granted bond after nearly 3 decades of incarceration

Oklahoma District Judge Natalie Mai on Thursday ordered former death row inmate Richard Glossip to be released from prison for the first time in 29 years while awaiting a retrial....

Texas inmate James Broadnax faces Thursday execution amid final appeal arguing he wasn’t the shooter

The death row inmate has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution, pointing to a codefendant’s confession in the shooting death of two people.

James Broadnax's appeals: US Supreme Court denies 2 claims, confession pending

Despite an eleventh-hour confession from another man, James Broadnax is slated to be executed by the state of Texas later this week. Broadnax, 37, is scheduled to be put to deat...

1998 Death penalty case heads back to court

57-year-old Omar Richard Deen's was overturned in April of 2026 by the California Supreme Court due to a juror's personal connection to Calipatria Police Chief J. Leonard Speer. Th...

Prosecutors used rap lyrics to help send a man to death row in Texas. It’s not an uncommon tactic

(AP) — When he was 19, James Broadnax jotted down rap lyrics, thoughts and even job leads in a notebook that would become evidence at his capital murder trial. Prosecutors selected...

Former death row inmate granted $500,000 bond as he awaits new trial

A judge has granted a $500,000 bond for a high-profile Oklahoma inmate who had spent almost 30 years on death row.

Nevada prison system says it does not have the drugs to conduct an execution

The disclosure comes in the wake of an announcement from District Attorney Steve Wolfson that he would seek execution warrants for three death row inmates.

North Texas man faces execution as his cousin claims he was the shooter in fatal robbery

A North Texas man who claims he was not the shooter in a fatal robbery that killed two people nearly 18 years ago and who says prosecutors misused rap lyrics he wrote to secure his...

Texas death row case raises debate over use of rap lyrics in court

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

DOJ Pushes Firing Squad Option As Public Opinion On Death Penalty Shifts 

The method highly controversial and only legal in five states - South Carolina, Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah.

Two years after a judge recommended her murder conviction be tossed, Melissa Lucio still waits for freedom

A district judge provided two recommendations to the Court of Criminal Appeals in 2024, but the court’s process provides no details on when it will rule on the death row inmate’s i...