Cousin's Confession, Racial Bias Claims in Texas Execution

0:00It's April 30th. From your city to your ears, this is Durham News Today, powered by AI. James Broadnax, a 37-year-old from North Texas, faces execution by lethal injection tonight in Texas for the 2008 shooting, deaths of two men outside of Dallas-Area Music Studio. Prosecutors say he and his cousin robbed and killed Steven Swan and Matthew Butler in a parking lot, and Broadnax confessed back then, even telling. Prosecutors, he pulled the trigger with no regrets. Now his cousin, DeMaria's Cummings, serving life without parole, just confessed in a video from prison that he was the actual shooter, saying he killed. Both victims and apologizing for the robbery. Broadnax's team points out Cummings' DNA was on the gun and in one victim's pocket, not Broadnax's. Lawyers also claim prosecutors struck potential. Black jurors based on race during the trial, using a spreadsheet to highlight their names, violating A, keys to Prem Court ruling from 1986, that even tried to block the death sentence

1:03over rap lyrics used to paint him as violent, with support from rappers like Travis Scott and Killer Mike, but that got shot down. The Supreme Court rejected final appeals on these issues, and the Texas Board of Partens and Paroles denied a reprieve earlier this week. State officials call the cousin's confession questionable, and say jurors were dismissed for opposing the death penalty, not race. To Matthew Butler's mom calls it a desperate stall tactic, and wants justice served. If it goes ahead, Broadnax becomes Texas' third execution this year, keeping the state ahead in that grim count. Other case where new claims collide, with old verdicts.