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Menzies’ September execution had been postponed while the courts debated whether he could still be sent to the firing squad due to his declining health and mental state.

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The Utah Supreme Court ruled late Friday afternoon that Menzies’ mental competency needs to be re-evaluated because of his dementia, overturning a previous lower court finding.

Ralph Menzies' legal team has appealed a Utah judge’s rulings on his mental capacity to the Utah Supreme Court. Their main argument centered around a judge’s denial of a request for a new mental evaluation.

Ralph Menzies is scheduled to be executed by firing squad on Sept. 5, 2025. Activists, including the brother of Ronnie Lee Gardner, want capital punishment to be abolished in Utah.

Ralph Menzies is scheduled to be executed Sept. 5 for the brutal murder of Maurine Hunsaker. At his commutation hearing, her family recounted the pain of losing her nearly four decades ago.

“Jails and prisons are not treatment facilities, and they are certainly not assisted living centers and are not facilities with memory care units,” notes lawyer and author Elizabeth Kelley.

The 67-year-old is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 5. His attorneys argue his vascular dementia and sentencing errors warrant commuting his sentence to life in prison.

While a Utah judge set a September execution date, the court scheduled another hearing to determine whether the inmate with dementia needs another mental evaluation to determine competency.

Sixty-seven-year-old Ralph Menzies, despite suffering from dementia, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in 1986.

A convicted killer who developed dementia while on death row for 37 years has been ruled competent enough to be executed. Menzies was sentenced to die in 1988 for killing mother of three Maurine Hunsaker.

Ralph Leroy Menzies was sentenced to die in 1988 for the killing of Maurine Hunsaker. His attorneys say the 67-year-old inmate’s dementia is so severe that he cannot understand why he’s to be executed.