SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Supreme Court is now deciding whether death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies should be granted another competency hearing in district court and whether his scheduled execution by firing squad on Sept. 5 should be delayed pending that decision.

If the execution is delayed, Matt Hunsaker doesn’t believe it will ever happen.

“I’m sticking to my firm belief that if we don’t execute him on Sept. 5, there will not be an execution,” said Hunsaker, a son of victim Maurine Hunsaker.

Attorneys for Menzies and the state presented their arguments Thursday before the state’s highest court. The main issue is whether 3rd District Judge Matthew Bates erred in not granting Menzies a new competency hearing.

“There was a lot of legal discussion today,” Hunsaker noted after the

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