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 woman to stop her from testifying against him in a rape case.

The Supreme Court refused to hear Utah's appeal to reinstate the death penalty for Douglas Lovell, who murdered Joyce Yost in 1985.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the decision made by the Utah Supreme Court to overturn the death sentence of a Utah man convicted of murdering a woman in 1985 to keep her from testifying against him.

The Supreme Court upheld a decision by the Utah Supreme Court to overturn a man’s death sentence. The justices made no comment when they rejected the state’s appeal in the case of Douglas Lovell. Lovell was charged in 1992 for the 1985 murder of Joyce Yost to prevent her from testifying against him in a