Ralph Leroy Menzies appears for a competency hearing in 3rd District Court in West Jordan on Monday, Nov 18, 2024. (Pool photo by Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune) A Utah judge says death row inmate ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A judge has ruled that condemned killer Ralph Leroy Menzies is competent to be executed. In a ruling handed down late Friday, 3rd District Court Judge Matthew Bates declared that ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Judge Matthew Bates has denied a new mental competency evaluation for Ralph Menzies, allowing his execution by firing squad to go forward. Menzies' defense team asked for the ...

Utah death-row inmate, Ralph Menzies, no longer understands why he is set to be executed, according to a new court-ordered psychological evaluation submitted this week to Third District Court Judge ...

Ralph Leroy Menzies is mentally competent enough to face execution by a firing squad for the 1986 kidnapping and killing of a Utah woman, a state judge has ruled. The ruling from 3rd District Judge ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A judge signed a death warrant for convicted killer Ralph Menzies, setting his execution by firing squad for Sept. 5 in a decades-old murder case, though his attorneys argue he ...

Ralph Menzies will not die by firing squad next week after the Utah Supreme Court announced late Friday afternoon that more evaluation is needed to determine whether the death row inmate is competent ...

Utah has scheduled an inmate's execution by firing squad in September despite arguments from his attorneys that his dementia is severe enough that he won't understand why he's being killed. Utah's 3rd ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies will not be granted another competency hearing. On Thursday, 3rd District Judge Matthew Bates denied the latest petition by Menzies' attorneys to ...