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Date of Firing Squad Execution Vacated for Utah Prisoner with Dementia
Loaded on Oct. 1, 2025
by Chuck Sharman
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2025, page 10
Filed under:
Death Penalty/Death Row,
Mental Health,
Federal Death Penalty Act,
Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
Location:
Utah.
by Chuck Sharman
With just a week to go before his scheduled execution by firing squad, attorneys for Utah prisoner Ralph Menzies, 67, won a stay from the state Supreme Court on August 29, 2025, after they successfully argued that his worsening vascular dementia may have robbed him …
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