Good news!
This is a reminder that capital punishment should not be executed right after the verdict, but perhaps 3-5 years later.
"A man who spent 41 years on death row in the US after being convicted of killing a woman has been released on bail after prosecutors said newly analysed DNA evidence did not link him to the crime.
Douglas Stewart Carter, who is now 71, was jailed for the killing of Eva Olesen in Utah in 1985.
He was sentenced to death but always maintained his innocence, stating that a signed confession was coerced. ..."
Douglas Stewart Carter, who is now 71, was jailed for the killing of Eva Olesen in Utah in 1985
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