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

Utah prosecutors are dropping plans to seek the death penalty in the upcoming retrial of Douglas Stewart Carter, a 71-year-old man who spent decades on death row. The decision follows newly analyzed DNA evidence from the crime scene that does not match Carter.

Carter was originally convicted and sentenced to death in 1985 for a killing committed that same year. Despite spending decades under a death sentence, the recent DNA findings have shifted the legal approach for his upcoming retrial.