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Supreme Court won't reimpose death sentence for a Utah man convicted of murdering a woman in 1985
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a Utah state court decision that overturned the death sentence for a man convicted of murdering a South Ogden woman to stop her from testifying against him in a rape case. The justices did not comment in rejecting the state's appeal in the case of Douglas Lovell. The Utah Supreme Court upheld Lovell's murder conviction for killing Joyce Yost in 1985 but threw out the sentence. Lovell tried to hire two people to kill Yost to prevent her from testifying against him on charges that he had raped her, state officials said. When that ...
