Death penalty taken off table in Utah murder retrial after DNA findings
A man who spent years on death row for a 1985 murder is scheduled to stand trial again after newly analyzed DNA evidence tied to the crime scene didn't match him.
Where it's breaking
Local coverage
Death penalty taken off table in Utah murder retrial after DNA findings
Death penalty taken off table in Utah murder retrial after DNA findings
Death penalty taken off table in Utah murder retrial after DNA findings
Death penalty taken off table in Utah murder retrial after DNA findings
Utah prosecutors say DNA evidence doesn’t match man who spent decades on death row
Utah prosecutors say DNA evidence doesn't match man who spent decades on death row
Utah prosecutors say DNA evidence doesn’t match man who spent decades on death row
Utah prosecutors say DNA evidence doesn’t match man who spent decades on death row
Utah prosecutors say DNA evidence doesn’t match man who spent decades on death row
Utah prosecutors say DNA evidence doesn’t match man who spent decades on death row
Sources cited
Original outlets that filed on this story across the contributing metros. Click through for the underlying coverage.
- T2WDIV (Local 4 / NBC Detroit)
- T2The Virginian-Pilot
- T2Daily Press
- T2Capital Gazette
- T2Baltimore Sun
- T3Main Line Times
- T3Delaware County Daily Times
- T3Daily Local News (Chester County)
- T2Sun Sentinel (South Florida)
- T2LA Daily News
- T2Pasadena Star-News
- T2San Bernardino Sun
- T2Long Beach Press-Telegram
- T2Orange County Register
- T2Lowell Sun
- T2FOX29 Philadelphia (WTXF)
- T2WNYW (FOX5 NY)
- T2FOX 32 Chicago (WFLD)
- T2FOX 5 Atlanta (WAGA)
- T2FOX 5 DC
What this is
A national rollup is a story Executive Producer detected breaking in multiple US metros at once. Each contributing market has its own deduplicated cluster from local broadcast, print, government, and community sources — this page links them together so a journalist can see the full national footprint. We are a pointer, not a publisher.Every linked headline goes back to the local cluster and from there to the original outlet — that's the URL to cite. A lead, not the law.