USA - Utah. A jury sentenced Douglas Lovell to death

A Weber County jury sentenced Douglas Lovell, 57, White, to death, and Second District Judge Michael Direda ordered Lovell to die by lethal injection. Lovell kidnapped and raped a woman, Joyce Yost, in 1985, then killed her to silence her. Lovell was sentenced to die for the same crimes in 1993. He spent 17 years on death row after he pleaded guilty to the brutal 1985 murder of Joyce Yost. After years of appeals, the Utah Supreme Court allowed Lovell to withdraw that guilty plea in 2010 and a new trial was ordered.