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 will not seek the death penalty in the upcoming trial against a 71-year-old Utah man who spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing that he says he didn’t commit.
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