Prosecutors used hip-hop lyrics to help sentence a man to death: ‘This only happens to rap music’

Broadnax is set to enter the execution chamber in Huntsville, Texas, on. He will be strapped to a gurney and injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital – his life snuffed out in no small part because of the prosecutorial use, or misuse, of his poetry. In 2009, Broadnax, who is African American, wa...

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