Attorneys for a Black man scheduled to be executed in Texas say the introduction of rap lyrics he wrote biased an almost all-white jury when they decided to sentence him to death.

Tupac Shakur‘s family, namely Tupac’s stepbrother Maurice Shakur, files a new wrongful death lawsuit against the late rapper’s accused killer Duane “Keefe D” Davis. According to a Los Angeles Times report,

Both men were arrested for the shooting deaths of music producers Stephen Swan and Matthew Butler in June of 2008, but only Broadnax was sentenced to death — in part, due to rap lyrics he wrote. Since Broadnax confessed to being the shooter,

The musician, born James Dear, died on Sunday, Feb. 22 in Los Angeles

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some of rap music’s biggest names have come out in support of a Black man, whose rap lyrics were cited during his sentencing in Texas. He is on death row. In 2009, a nearly all-white ...

The Texas death row case of James Broadnax highlights growing concerns over the use of rap lyrics as evidence in court.

In 2009, James Broadnax was sentenced to death in Texas after being found guilty of murdering two men during a 2008 robbery in Garland, Texas. He received the death penalty after prosecutors used rap lyrics he had handwritten as key points of evidence in ...

Rapper Lil Poppa has died at 25. The Jacksonville, Florida-based musician died Wednesday in Georgia, the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed to The Independent. A cause of death was not immediately available. Born Janarious Mykel Wheeler, the ...