SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Supreme Court has overturned condemned killer Ralph Leroy Menzies' firing squad execution, ordering a new mental competency evaluation.

In a unanimous ruling issued late Friday, the Court overruled a judge who denied his request for a new mental competency hearing. Menzies' lawyers have argued he has dementia and to execute him would violate the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

"Menzies's vascular dementia and its progressive effects call into question whether he remains competent to be executed. We acknowledge that this uncertainty has caused the family of Maurine Hunsaker immense suffering, and it is not our desire to prolong that suffering. But we are bound by the rule of law, and the law dictates that if Menzies makes a prima facie showing a substa

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