Texas executed a North Texas man on Thursday in Huntsville after he proclaimed his innocence in the 2008 shooting deaths of two Garland men.
James Garfield Broadnax, 37, was pronounced dead at 6:47 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection of pentobarbital at the Huntsville Unit.
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