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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Woman on death row for nearly three decades has conviction overturned after shocking new information is revealed
On 27 March 1998, Brittany Holberg was sentenced to death for the robbery, torture and murder of 80-year-old Texas-local, A.
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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.
Court stays execution of Texas man days before he was set to die by lethal injection
A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set ...
Federal appeals court reverses Texas death row inmate’s conviction
A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...
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 ...
Federal appeals court reverses Amarillo woman’s death row conviction
A federal appeals court has reversed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...
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 ...
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Federal appeals court reverses Texas death row inmate's 1998 murder conviction
After the woman spent 27 years on death row for killing an 80-year-old man, the court found that prosecutors failed to reveal ...
Texas Inmate on Death Row for 27 Years Has Conviction Overturned
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the conviction and death sentence of Brittany Holberg, who was 25 when she was sentenced to death.
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Louisiana’s Jewish community protests nitrogen gas death row executions, seeing a link to ‘the decimation of our people’
She was right: Both Leo and the woman he would marry ... decrying the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, such a method echoes the Holocaust ...