US Man Freed After 41 Years on Death Row as DNA Clears Him
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Douglas Stewart Carter, 71, spent 41 years in prison in the United States, most of them in the death row, convicted of the murder of Eva Olesen in Utah. On Monday night, he left the prison on bail after a new DNA scan did not identify him as a possible source of genetic material found at the scene of the crime. The case has not yet been closed: Carter should be submitted to a new trial, although prosecutors have given up on the death penalty aga…
US man freed after 41 years on death row as DNA clears him
A 71-year-old man, Douglas Stewart Carter, has been freed on bail after spending 41 years on death row as new DNA evidence failed to link him to a murder. Read More: https://punchng.com/us-man-freed-after-41-years-on-death-row-as-dna-clears-him/
After more than four decades in prison, 71-year-old Douglas Stewart Carter, who was sentenced to death in the US state of Utah for the 1985 murder of a woman, was released from prison. The man has maintained his innocence throughout, claiming that he only signed his earlier confession under duress. The latest DNA tests brought an unexpected turn in his case, according to which the man's genetic material was not found on either the murder weapon …
Douglas Stewart Carter, who always argued his innocence, fled Utah when he believed himself a suspect in another case and was located in Nashville, Tennessee, where he signed a confession that he later claimed to have made under police pressure.
A man was released from death row after forty-one years after DNA testing cleared him of the crime - The man is now 71 years old.
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