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Man ordered released on bail after decades on Utah’s death row after DNA tests show no match to him

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A 71-year-old man was released on bail from Utah's death row after new DNA evidence failed to match him to the crime.

A Utah judge has ordered a 71-year-old man to be released on bail after he spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing, despite objections from the victim’s family, after prosecutors said newly analyzed DNA evidence did not match him. Douglas Stewart Carter was sentenced to death that same year after a jury found...

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