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Abené Clayton and agencies

Utah death-row prisoner released after new DNA analysis of 1985 killing

Douglas Stewart Carter reads a document while sitting in a car after his release
Douglas Carter after a judge ordered his release on Monday. Photograph: George Frey/AP

A Utah man who has spent more than four decades on death row was released from jail after newly analyzed DNA evidence showed that he was not connected to a 1985 homicide.

Douglas Stewart Carter, now 71, walked out of the Utah county jail late on Monday night after a judge ordered his release on bail. He will have to wear a GPS monitoring device until a new trial begins.

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