ProvoDouglas Stewart Carter spent 41 years on death row before bail on Monday.
A state kept a man awaiting execution for decades on a confession he says was coerced.
DNA testing this month excluded Carter from blood on the door and genetic material on the knife handle, prosecutors said.
Eva Olesen’s daughter-in-law told the bond hearing the family wanted him jailed, saying a DNA mismatch “doesn’t mean he wasn’t there.”
Carter’s attorney is seeking dismissal ahead of the retrial Utah’s Supreme Court ordered last year.
How each outlet framed it
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- BBC leans critical
- reconstructs injustice sequence—coerced confession and witness testimony overrode physical evidence absence, decades needed for DNA exoneration
Sources: BBC