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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Hannah Schoenbaum and Matthew Brown

Utah judge to decide if convicted killer with dementia can be executed

Attorneys for a Utah man who has been on death row for 37 years are due before a state judge Wednesday as they seek to spare the convicted murderer from execution because he has dementia.

Ralph Leroy Menzies was sentenced to die in 1988 for the killing of Maurine Hunsaker, a mother of three. His attorneys say the 67-year-old inmate's dementia is so severe that he cannot understand why he is facing execution.

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