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SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — A scheduling conference will be held today in the Ralph Menzies case, an inmate who is on death row for the last 37 years.

Menzies was initially ruled to be executed on Sept. 5 but in August, the Utah Supreme Court stayed his execution. The state's top court ruled that the lower district court must reevaluate Menzies’ competency before he can be executed.

His attorneys have filed several appeals, citing that Menzies has “worsening dementia” and poor health and asked that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison without parole.

Who is Ralph Menzies?

Menzies was convicted in 1988 for the 1986 aggravated murder, kidnapping, and robbery of Maurine Hunsaker.

On February 23, 1986,

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