As the days tick down to Ralph Menzies’ execution, anti-death penalty advocates said Friday that a firing squad leaves open ...

Governor Cox speaks about Ryan Michael Bate, accused of killing two Tremonton officers and injuring a Deputy and K9 Officer.

Ralph Menzies has vascular dementia. His lawyers say let him fade away. The victim's family says: execute him. Utah's parole ...

With his execution approaching, attorneys for death row inmate Ralph Menzies made what could be one of their final pleas for ...

If it wins approval, HB147 would repeal Utah's death penalty and replace it with a new law — one that would give prosecutors a new bargaining chip in its place in their pursuit of plea deals: a ...

Ralph Menzies' appeal to the Utah Supreme Court is likely his last chance to delay his firing squad execution, scheduled for ...

Utah is the only state in four decades to carry out such a death sentence, with three executions by firing squad since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

Utah County Sheriff Mike Smith said he's troubled by looking at justice from a budget. He argued that the law does not compel any county attorney to apply the death penalty.

Perhaps just as unlikely, Utah could be 2022’s next big death penalty headline. It would a dramatic political moment in a deep red state so conservative it went for Donald Trump by more than 20 ...

In less than a month, the state of Utah is set to execute Ralph Menzies by firing squad — a man convicted and sentenced to death for the horrific 1987 murder of Maurine Hunsaker. I want to start by ...