Death Row

A Utah court released Douglas Carter on bail after 41 years on death row due to new DNA evidence and police misconduct, paving the way for a 2027 retrial.

Francis Clifford Smith, convicted in 1950 for the murder of a night watchman, has passed away at the age of 101. During his incarceration, he faced the death penalty eight times, only to have his sentence repeatedly postponed and eventually commuted to life imprisonment. Having served approximately 70 years, he held the record for the longest prison sentence in U.S. history before being...