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As the days tick down to Ralph Menzies’ execution, anti-death penalty advocates said Friday that a firing squad leaves open ...
The 20 plus charges the state threw at Ryan Bate—the accused killer of the Tremonton officers—is an indication they do not ...
Ralph Menzies has vascular dementia. His lawyers say let him fade away. The victim's family says: execute him. Utah's parole ...
With his execution approaching, attorneys for death row inmate Ralph Menzies made what could be one of their final pleas for ...
Utah is the only state in four decades to carry out such a death sentence, with three executions by firing squad since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
Ralph Menzies' appeal to the Utah Supreme Court is likely his last chance to delay his firing squad execution, scheduled for ...
If it wins approval, HB147 would repeal Utah's death penalty and replace it with a new law — one that would give prosecutors a new bargaining chip in its place in their pursuit of plea deals: a ...
Utah County Sheriff Mike Smith said he's troubled by looking at justice from a budget. He argued that the law does not compel any county attorney to apply the death penalty.
Prosecutors will pursue the death penalty against the man accused of shooting and killing two Tremonton-Garland police ...
In less than a month, the state of Utah is set to execute Ralph Menzies by firing squad — a man convicted and sentenced to death for the horrific 1987 murder of Maurine Hunsaker. I want to start by ...