Utah killer with dementia is qualified to face the death penalty, the rules of the judge

A A condemned killer in Utah Who developed the dementia during his time at the time of death is the competent enough to execute it, the state judge spent on Friday.

Ralph Leroy Minses, 67, was convicted of death in March 1988 on charges of killing Mourin Hansker in 1986, a mother of three children, 26 years old.

Judge Matthew Bings said that Menzes “constantly understands and rationally” is what is happening and why he faces death, despite his recent cognitive retreat.

Bings said in his court: “MINISES did not appear through the predominance of evidence that his understanding of his crime and his specific punishment may have fluctuated or rejected in a way that offends the eighth amendment,” which prohibits harsh and unusual penalties.

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Menzies has chosen the shooting group as his execution method and will only become the sixth American prisoner who was executed by the shooting team since 1977 – three in Utah, with the last one in the state in 2010, and two in South Carolina this year.

It is expected that the Office of the Public Prosecutor in Utah will present a death memorandum soon.

Menzies’s lawyers argued that their client’s sheep were so severe that he could not understand the reason for his execution, adding that they were planning to appeal Friday to Friday to The Supreme Court in the state.

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“Ralph Menezes is a very damaged man in the brain, with a 67 -year -old wheelchair with dementia and major memory problems,” Lindsay’s lawyer said in a statement. “It is extremely disturbing that Utah is planning to remove Mr. Menzis from his wheelchair and oxygen tanks for entering a execution chair and shooting him to death.”

The United States Supreme Court in prison prisoners with dementia has already succeeded, including a man in Alabama in 2019. A police officer was killed.

Since the sentence was issued 37 years ago, Menzies’s lawyers made many appeals that were late, which was scheduled at least twice before postponing it.

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Menzies Hunsaker was kidnapped in February 1986 from the store where she worked, just three days after his release on bail due to an unrelated crime. Hunsaker was later found strangled with her throat in the Nuzha area in the Wasac Mountains in northern Utah.

When he was later imprisoned in unrelated matters, Menzies had a Hunsaker and many other elements to which she belongs. Condemn First degree killing And other crimes.

Matt Hansak, who was 10 years old when his mother was killed, said on Friday that his family was overwhelmed to know that justice would finally serve.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.