Utah Judge Set to Decide if Convicted Murderer with Dementia Can Be Executed

Attorneys for a Utah man who has been on death row for 37 years sought to convince a state judge Wednesday that the convicted murderer should be spared 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 said the 67-year-old inmate’s dementia is so severe that he cannot understand why he is facing execution.

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