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Society US

Utah Releases Inmate After Decades

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Utah released Douglas Stewart Carter, 71, on bail after 41 years on death row, as new DNA tests did not link him to a 1985 murder.

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When the past rules the present….

Death sentences have undergone monumental changes, in defense ability, in understanding of the role of mental health & age, in jury willingness to impose death & prosecutors’ likelihood to ask for it.

Death row manifests the past as will this execution.
Tennessee to execute a woman for first time in 200 years after governor denies clemency
Lawyers for Christa Pike, 50, convicted of killing classmate in Knoxville in 1995, ask supreme court to grant stay
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2026 at 4:03 AM
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(AP) — A man who spent decades on Utah’s death row is ordered released on bail after DNA tests show no match to him.
September 28, 2026 at 11:10 PM