Ralph Leroy Menzies is set to be executed by a Utah firing squad nearly 40 years after he brutally murdered 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.

The lawyers of a death row inmate set to die by gruelling execution method have objected due to a dementia diagnosis.