Update: The State of Texas executed James Broadnax by lethal injection April 30. From the gurney, he said he had prayed for forgiveness and reasserted his innocence. “No matter what you think about me, Texas got it wrong,” he said. “I’m innocent. The facts of the case should speak for itself.“
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 Broadnax, in which the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office was seeking death, but attorneys for the state used one of their limited peremptory strikes to keep Riser off the jury.
