Federal appeals court reverses conviction of Texas woman on death row after 27 years
The federal appeals court said the prosecution failed to disclose that a key trial witness was a paid informant.
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Supreme Court Decision on Prosecutor Sexism Could Give Women New Trials
In January, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a federal court to consider whether an Oklahoma woman named Brenda Andrew should ...
Brittany Holberg, inmate on Texas death row for 27 years, has her conviction tossed by federal appeals court
A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.
Woman who's been on death row for 27 years has conviction quashed after new information
Bombshell new evidence has given Brittany Holberg, 52, a reprieve - a case which a judge in Texas, US, says serves as a ...
A look at the status of US executions in 2025
The most recent U.S. execution took place Friday, when Brad Sigmon, 67, died by firing squad in South Carolina. Sigmon, who ...
Federal appeals court reverses Texas death row inmate’s conviction
Brittany Marlowe Holberg was convicted in 1998 of robbing and murdering an 80-year-old man in his Amarillo home.
Louisiana’s Jewish community protests nitrogen gas death row executions, seeing a link to ‘the decimation of our people’
Before the Nazis sent him to a forced labor camp, young Leo Lewis’ grandmother paid him one last visit. “I will not be here when you come back,” she told the boy, who had voluntarily handed himself ...
81-year-old found dead in 1997, Oklahoma cops say. Now, two family members arrested
New evidence obtained by investigators in 2023 eventually led them to the suspected killers in the 27-year-old cold case.
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Trade Fight Widens as Europe and Canada Retaliate Against Trump Tariffs As President Trump’s global tariffs on metals took effect, the European Union and Canada announced billions of dollars in ...