They're Executing the Innocent and Letting Black Mothers Die | Angela Rye SoloPod
Native Land Pod
iHeartPodcasts and Reasoned Choice
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
James Broadnax is set to be executed on April 30th for a crime that someone else has confessed to. Call Texas Governor Abbot, ask him to free James Broadnax:
800-843-5789
512-463-2000
Stay updated @justiceforjamesbroadnax on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justiceforjamesbroadnax/
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Native Lamb Pod is a production of IHeart Radio in partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:09.6 | Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. |
| 0:13.6 | Welcome home, y'all. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm Angela Rye, your host of today's solo pod. |
| 0:18.0 | And I want to start with a story that too many of us are not talking about. |
| 0:22.9 | This man's name is James Broadnax. He is currently on death row awaiting execution, two days |
| 0:30.1 | remaining. There's a color change petition. There's a page called Justice for James Broadnax. |
| 0:36.6 | And I'm encouraging you all to sign on to Instagram, to look at this page and understand his story. |
| 0:44.4 | It is crazy. |
| 0:46.0 | So just yesterday, the Supreme Court denied James Broadnex two appeals. |
| 0:52.3 | He issued two appeals to the Supreme Court asking them to |
| 0:56.2 | stay his execution. They were rooted in two things. Number one, James Broadnex now is 37 years old. |
| 1:04.0 | And the first appeal is around alleging that the use of rap lyrics in James's trial during the trial was unconstitutional. |
| 1:15.2 | Another appeal is around the prosecutors striking black jurors, potential jurors, from the selection |
| 1:24.3 | pool, which resulted in an almost all-white jury, which is never fair. |
| 1:28.7 | We've seen this time and time again. |
| 1:31.2 | Without saying anything, the Supreme Court denied both of those appeals and to make matters worse. |
| 1:37.0 | Today, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles declined clemency. |
| 1:42.0 | James's last hope, his last ditch effort is for us to weigh in with the governor. |
| 1:49.1 | What that means is that we can call the governor today. What just happened. Sorry y'all. I don't know |
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