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Court sets execution date by firing squad for Utah inmate with dementia

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SALT LAKE CITY (KTVX) – A Utah judge on Wednesday set an execution date for a man whose lawyers say he suffers from worsening dementia.

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, has been on death row since 1988 after his conviction for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in 1986. When given a choice decades ago, Menzies selected a firing squad as his method of execution. If he's executed on Sept. 5, he would become only the sixth U.S. prisoner executed by firing squad since 1977.

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