Ralph Menzies asks slogan board to save his life

In a petition in the Utah's probation authority, the life of inmates Ralph Menzies spares in the death recordings, his lawyers will describe in detail what they say when Utah executes the 67-year-old man as planned on September 5:

Officers remove the oxygen tubes from its nose, which menzies rely on breathing. Several people have to help him in the execution chamber because he needs a wheelchair or a hiker.

Then five people with high speed rifles train on what lawyers refer to as “body of a fragile, older man who already fades”, from the effects of dementia. And then they will fire.

“This will not be justice,” wrote the lawyers of Menzies. “His execution will not fulfill no purpose than to transform the inevitability of death into an unnecessary representation of violence.”

Menzies has been in Utah's death cell for almost 40 years after he kidnapped and killed a young mother, Maurine Hunsaker in 1986. At the beginning of this month, a judge signed a death sentence against Menzies and found that there was no legal reason to follow the execution after Menzies exhausted all of his appeals.

However, Menzies will be in court next week, as his lawyers continue to argue that the man's dementia has become worse and that the judge can hire the execution so that Menzies can be evaluated to determine whether he is competent. (Utahs and the United States' constitutions prohibit the government of executing someone if they do not understand that they are executed and the reasons for it.)

On Wednesday, his lawyers asked Utah's probation of probation in a mercy petition to save the life of menzies. Unlike in some other countries, Utah's governor cannot turn a death sentence – only the probation authority has this authority. This is one of the last steps that Menzies can take to try to stop his execution.

Jennifer Yim, the board administrator of the Utah Board of Pardons and Sanole, confirmed on Wednesday that the board was given the petition of Menzies, and said the state now had seven days to answer. The Board of Directors will then check the documents and make decisions about whether menzies should be granted a hearing for commutation.

The general prosecutor's office in Utah refused to comment on Menzies Petition on Wednesday. Lawyers of the office have previously argued that, despite his dementia, Menzies still has an understanding of the death penalty and was not incompetent to be executed.

In Utah, the hearing's hearings are rare – there have been only two since 2010. Both men, Ronnie Lee Gardner and Taberon Honie, had their petitions refused and executed.

The Petition of Menzies largely asks the probation committee to save its life because of its deteriorating dementia.

His lawyers found that they advised Menzies not to speak at his hearing if the board grants you because he no longer remembers the crime or his process and “do not make sense, remind or concentrate on the topic.”

Here are other important arguments in addition to the health of Menzies that his lawyers have made to stop his execution.

Problems with an attempt

In 1986 Menzies kidnapped Hunsaker, a 26-year-old mother, from a Kearns petrol station, left her neck and had her body bound to a tree near a picnic area in the Big Cottonwood Canyon. A jury condemned him two years later in a court proceedings.

Menzies' lawyers described a number of incidents in detail during their process, of which they say they have biased the jury. A juror passed out during the certificate, and what Menzies suddenly tied up and removed from the courtroom in front of the jury. Later, according to the petition, a court reporter began to cry during the medical examiner's testimony.

Another juror received an anonymous call from someone who claimed Menzies had committed another murder, according to the petition, and another juror had “several breakdowns” during the trial.

According to the petition, there is no reliable trial labeling, and appeal lawyers have found that parts missing, transcripts that made no sense and parts of the transcripts that were lifted from police reports.

Menzies' lawyers continue to argue that his process lawyers were not prepared for the criminal phase of the process and that the necessary records could not check.

The opinion of the judgment was changed

Menzies's lawyers also asked the probation sponsors to take into account an affidavit that judge Raymond Uno, who condemned Menzies to death, wrote in 2010.

In this affidavit, UN said that he applied the law incorrectly when he reduced the death sentence. The cure against the error should be that Menzies have reduced his prison sentence to life in prison.

He also noted that Menzies had noticed any proof of mental illness that had also been spared the life of the Menzies.

Uno died last year.

Opinion of the Integrity Unit conviction

Sim Gill, District Salt Lake County, created an unit of conviction in 2018 in 2018, a gremas of severe thunderstorms in Utah's world of legal world, the cases in which people say that they are innocent, even though they were guilty in court.

In his petition, the lawyers of Menzies say that this unit had checked his case and gave the recommendation to Gill that Menzies annoyed against life without a slogan because the process judge, who condemned Menzies, sentenced to statements from an informant of the prison house that later repeated.

The lawyers found that one of the recommendations from the recommendation of Christine Durham, the Retired judge in Utah, who had previously confirmed the conviction and judgment of the menzies in Utah, while serving at the High Court of the State.

According to the petition, Gill refused to recommend the committee. At the time when Menzies was convicted, life without a slogan was not an option. The judge only had the choice of ordering Menzies' execution or giving him an indefinite penalty of 25 years.

The petition said Gill rejected it to reinforce Menzies because he did not believe that he could retrospectively apply the right to convict and ask a judge to give menzies a punishment that was not legally available at the time of his crimes.