Attorneys for a North Texas death row inmate say a newly obtained confession from his cousin could prove he is not the gunman in a 2008 double murder — and are now demanding a new trial.
James Broadnax is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on April 30 for the killings of Christian music producers Stephen Swan and Matthew Butler in Garland.
His attorneys point to a recent written confession from Demarius Cummings, who is already serving a life sentence for the same murders. In that statement, Cummings claims he — not Broadnax — pulled the trigger…