Convicted of beating and choking the teenager to death nearly five decades ago, Hitchcock offered a brief final statement ...

Texas executed James Broadnax for a 2008 double murder hours after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeal based on his cousin’s confession. Broadnax maintained his innocence in his last ...

James Broadnax was pronounced dead at 6:47 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.

James Broadnax was executed April 30 after courts rejected filings related to rap lyrics he'd written, racial makeup of his ...

James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, was executed by way of three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. Hitchcock was ...

Sheriff Susan Hutson was charged in a 30-count indictment brought forth by Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill in ...

Texas on Thursday evening executed a 37-year-old man convicted of a double murder in 2008 that he said he didn't commit.

Prosecutors say Broadnax, 37, confessed to the shooting, telling reporters during jailhouse interviews that "I pulled the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court had denied Broadnax's final appeal to temporarily stop his execution and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did ...

Broadnax, who was convicted of killing two music producers in Garland in a 2008 robbery, is the third inmate executed by the ...

Texas has executed James Broadnax for the 2008 slayings of two men at a Garland recording studio, despite a recent claim from ...