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Brittany Holberg, inmate on Texas death row for 27 years, has her conviction tossed by federal appeals court

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Brittany Marlowe Holberg has been on death row for 27 years .

She was convicted of murdering an 80-year-old man and former client of a sex worker.

Prosecutors relied heavily on testimony from a jail inmate who was working as a confidential informant for the City of Amarillo police.

In a 2 -1 decision, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals sent her conviction back down to the trial court.

According to CBS affiliate KFDA-TV , Holberg is currently being held at the Patrick L. O'Daniel Unit , a Gatesville prison that houses women on death row. One of those inmates is, who has been on death row in Texas since 2008 in the death of her 2-year-old daughter Mariah. Last November , the judge who presided over Lucio 's murder trial ruled there was clear and convincing evidence that Mariah died from an accidental fall, and.