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 ...

A judge said he will decide within the next 60 days whether Ralph Menzies, convicted of kidnapping and killing a woman in 1986, is competent enough to be executed. Utah 3rd District Judge Matthew ...

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 ...

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 ...

FILE - Jasmine North, federal public defender mitigation investigator, speaks with Ralph Leroy Menzies during his competency hearing in Third District Court in West Jordan, Utah, Nov. 18, 2024. (Rick ...

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 ...

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 ...