FILE - Jasmine North, federal public defender mitigation investigator, left, speaks with Ralph Leroy Menzies during his competency hearing in Third District Court in West Jordan, Utah, Nov. 18, 2024. ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The impending execution of a man by firing squad in Utah was blocked by the state’s Supreme Court on Friday after his attorneys argued he should be spared because he has dementia ...