Utah’s state killer with dementia competently threatens the death penalty, the rules of the judges

A Condemned killer in Utah The dementia that developed during its time is competent enough to be shot, the state judge ruled on Friday.

67-year-old Ralph Leo Menis was found guilty and sentenced to death in March 1988 for the murder of Maurin Hunsker in 1986, a 26-year-old three-year-old mother.

Judge Matthew Bates said that Menis “consistently understands” what is happening and why he is faced with the shooting despite the recent cognitive downturn.

“Menis did not show the benefits of evidence that his understanding of his particular crime and punishment fluctuated or refused that he insulted an eighth amendment,” which prohibits severe and unusual punishment, “Bitsts said at his court.

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67 -year -old Ralph Leo Menis was found guilty and sentenced to death in March 1988 for killing Moorin Hunsker. (AP)

Menisi chose a shooting squad as a method of shooting and becoming only a sixth prisoner in the United States, punished since 1977 – three in Utah, and the last in the state was held in 2010, and two in South Carolina this year.

The Utka Prosecutor General’s Office is expected to submit a warrant soon.

Menzis’s lawyers claimed that his client’s dementia was so serious that he could not understand why he was being killed by adding that they plan to appeal against the ruling on Friday The Supreme Court of the State.

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Ralph Leo Menis chose fire as a method of shooting. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, Pool, File)

“Ralph Menzys is a badly damaged brain, a 67-year-old man with dementia and significant memory problems,” his lawyer Lindsey said in a statement. “It is deeply anxious that Utah plans to remove Mr. Menzis from his wheelchair and oxygen to tie him in a shooting chair and shoot him to death.”

The US Supreme Court had previously deprived prisoners of death with dementia from shooting, including a man of Alabama in 2019, convicted Killing a policeman.

Since its withdrawal 37 years ago, Menzis’s lawyers filed several appeals, which dragged his death sentence, which was planned at least twice before he was postponed.

Ralph Leo Menzis would only be a sixth prisoner in the US, punished by lights since 1977. (Department of South Carolina’s punishment through AP)

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In February 1986, Menis stole Hunsaker from the store where she worked, where she worked, only three days after he was released on his own recognizance for a non -related crime. Later, Hunsker was found strangled from her throat in the picnic zone in the mountains of Vasatch in the north of Utah.

When he was later imprisoned on unrelated issues, Menis had a wallet Hunsaker and several other subjects that belonged to her. He was convicted of Murder of the first degree and other crimes.

Matt Husker, who was 10 years old when his mother was killed, said on Friday that his family was overflowing with emotion to find out that justice would finally be presented.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.