A Utah judge has set an execution date for a man with dementia who has spent 37 years on death row, despite lawyers’ appeals arguing his worsening condition.
Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is scheduled for execution on 5 September for the 1986 abduction and murder of Utah mother-of-three Maurine Hunsaker. Decades ago, Menzies chose a firing squad as his method, making him only the sixth US prisoner executed by this means since 1977.
