A psychologist issued his clinical opinion Friday that death row inmate Ralph Menzies, who was set to be executed before it got appealed, is incompetent to be executed.

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, was a week away from having his death sentence carried out on Sept. 5 , when the Utah Supreme Court, in a 5-0 decision, ruled that questions about Menzies’ competency should have been given a second look in district court.

Menzies, 67, was found guilty of murdering Maurine Hunsaker, a 26-year-old mother of three who worked at a gas station in Kearns, in 1986. She called to tell her husband she had been abducted, and her body was found in Big Cottonwood Canyon two days later.

Menzies was initially determined to be mentally competent for execution on June 6. But his attorneys claim their client

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