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

Prosecutors love to cite rap as criminal evidence, but artists and advocates are waging an increasingly successful effort to ...

Attorneys for a Black man scheduled to be executed in Texas say the introduction of rap lyrics he wrote biased an almost ...

First Florida executed James Hitchcock for the 1976 murder of his brother's 13-year-old stepdaughter. Then Texas executed ...

James Broadnax's case highlights the controversial use of rap lyrics in court as evidence, raising questions about racial bias and artistic expression.

James Broadnax execution: A North Texas man who claimed he wasn’t the shooter in a fatal robbery that killed two people ...

James Broadnax, 37, was executed by lethal injection at 6.47pm local time at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas.

Prominent rappers like Travis Scott are weighing in at the Supreme Court about the upcoming execution of James Broadnax in ...

Both men were arrested for the shooting deaths of music producers Stephen Swan and Matthew Butler in June of 2008, but only ...

Rap lyrics were used to help send a man to death row. It’s not the first time - Judges often exclude other forms of creative ...

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