Overview
- Tiana Krasniqi says she is suffering flashbacks and panic attacks after watching her husband’s lethal injection in Texas, sharing her grief in a series of TikTok posts.
- She describes long final visits, says he told her he was scared and insisted he was not the shooter, and recounts his head jerking before his eyes closed on the gurney.
- Broadnax was convicted of the 2008 murders of Matthew Butler and Stephen Swan, though cousin Demarius Cummings later said on a prison video that he was the gunman and the defense cited Cummings’ DNA on key items.
- Prosecutors and relatives of the victims called the late confession a lie, authorities carried out the sentence after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeal, and Governor Greg Abbott did not intervene.
- Krasniqi says she formed a bond with Butler’s daughter, McKayla, who she says opposed the execution, and after the death she and Broadnax’s lawyers issued a statement praising his character and expressing remorse.