A Utah judge has set an execution date for a man with dementia who has spent 37 years on death row, despite lawyers’ appeals arguing his worsening condition. Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is scheduled for execution on 5 September for the 1986 abduction and murder of Utah mother-of-three Maurine Hunsaker.

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in 1986. When given a choice decades ago, Menzies selected a firing squad as his method of execution. He would become only the sixth U.S. prisoner executed by firing squad since 1977.