# @dailymail on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DHHZE3ciM-F
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/27337560-dailymail-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/d66aa9ac75.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-03-12T22:08:48.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Daily Mail (@dailymail) — https://gondola.cc/dailymail

## Caption

After 27 years on death row, Brittany Holberg's capital murder conviction has been overturned following a shocking revelation about a key witness. Holberg, now 52, was sentenced to death in 1998 for the brutal 1996 killing of 80-year-old A.B. Towery in Amarillo, Texas. Investigators say Holberg, then 23 and working as a sex worker, met Towery outside a grocery store before going to his apartment, where she fatally attacked him with a hammer, stabbed him 58 times, and forced a lamp pole down his throat. Last week, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to send her case back to trial court, citing prosecutors' failure to disclose that their key witness, Vicky Kirkpatrick, was a paid police informant. Kirkpatrick, Holberg’s former cellmate, had testified that Holberg admitted to the crime and showed no remorse. Read the full story at DailyMail.com. Link in bio. #deathrow #news #texas #crime

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## Tags

news, texas, crime, deathrow

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