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Utah prosecutors say DNA evidence doesn't match man who spent decades on death row

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

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