SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) -- Ralph Leroy Menzies, a Utah man convicted of kidnapping, robbing, and killing a woman in the 1980s, is competent to be executed, a court ruled.

It's been nearly four decades since a Utah woman and mother of three Maurine Hunsaker was kidnapped and killed. Her family says after the judge’s decision ruling Menzies competent to be executed on Friday, justice is being served.

“She was my world, she was everything to me and that's why for all these years I've never given up the fight because of what she meant to me and what I lost,” her son Matt Hunsaker told ABC4.com.

It is a fight Hunsaker has been chasing for nearly four decades. “The system has failed, 40 years, that's a long time,” Hunsaker said, referring to the nearly 40 years Menzies has been on death row.

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