Utah judge orders death-row inmate freed on bail as DNA evidence clears him in 40-year-old murder case
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After nearly four decades on death row, newly analyzed DNA evidence has exonerated Douglas Stewart Carter in a 1985 killing, raising questions about the original conviction and highlighting the stakes of capital cases where evidence can be re-examined.
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