Double killer’s new wife screams ‘I love you!’ as he’s executed while professing his innocence
James Broadnax, a 37-year-old man convicted of a 2008 double murder, was executed by lethal injection in Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene. His new wife, Tiana Krasniqi, who married him weeks earlier after a two-year correspondence from prison, screamed 'I love you' and became visibly distraught during the execution. Broadnax maintained his innocence until his death, and Krasniqi later claimed he suffered during the procedure, questioning the justice of his execution.
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US News Double killer’s new wife screams ‘I love you!’ as he’s executed while professing his innocence By Patrick Reilly Published May 1, 2026, 8:23 a.m. ET The new wife of a double murderer screamed “I love you” and flailed against the window as her husband was executed in front of her in Texas. British law graduate Tiana Krasniqi had married death row inmate James Broadnax just weeks before he died by lethal injection Thursday for killing two men in a 2008 robbery. The new wife — who struck up her relationship with the killer by writing to him in prison — was inconsolable as he was finally executed hours after the US Supreme Court denied a request to stop it. 4 James Broadnax with his wife Tiana Krasniqi. 4 James Broadnax, 37, was convicted of fatally shooting two men in 2008.
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