Utah prosecutors say DNA evidence doesn’t match man who spent decades on death row
Prosecutors are dropping the death penalty in the retrial of Douglas Stewart Carter, a 71-year-old man who spent decades on death row after new DNA evidence did not match him.
Prosecutors are dropping their plan to seek the death penalty in an upcoming retrial of a Utah man who spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing in which newly analyzed DNA evidence did not match him. Douglas Stewart Carter, 71, was sentenced to death in 1985 after a jury found him guilty of […]
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