A 37-year-old Texas man will be executed today as his last-minute appeals for clemency were denied this week, nearly 20 years after the murders of two men outside of a recording studio in the city of Garland. The U.S. Supreme Court denied James Broadnax's petition for a stay of execution on Monday. A day later, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously voted against a similar reprieve. He will become the third and likely final person to be executed in Texas in 2026. In June 2008, Broadnax said that he and his cousin, Demarius Cummings, both 19, set out to rob two men, Christian music producers Matt Butler and Steve Swan. Cummings has told the police that the heist was his plan and that he obtained the gun. Cummings has said that he gunned down the two men, not Broadnax. Texas death row inmate James Broadnax has said his previous confessions were made while under the influence of drugs (AP) “I persuaded James to take the blame for shooting the two victims.…