[FoxNews] Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, was sentenced to death in 1988 after he was convicted of killing Maurine Hunsaker, a young mother of three
A convicted killer in Utah who developed dementia during his time on death row is competent enough to be executed, a state judge ruled on Friday.
Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, was found guilty and sentenced to death in March 1988 for the 1986 killing of Maurine Hunsaker, a 26-year-old mother of three.
Judge Matthew Bates said Menzies "consistently and rationally understands" what is happening and why he is facing execution, despite his recent cognitive decline.
"Menzies has not shown by a preponderance of the evidence that his understanding of his specific crime and punishment has fluctuated or declined in a way that offends the Eighth Amendment," which prohibits cruel and unusual punishments, Bates said in his court order.
Menzies selected the firing squad as his method of execution and will become only the sixth U.S. prisoner executed by firing squad since 1977 — three in Utah, with the last one in the state carried out in 2010, and two in South Carolina this year.
The Utah Attorney General’s Office is expected to file a death warrant soon.
Menzies’ lawyers had argued their client's dementia was so severe that he could not understand why he was being put to death, adding that they plan to appeal Friday's ruling to the state Supreme Court.
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Is it really Justice when it takes 37 years to actually apply a death sentence issued in 1988?
There should be a streamline process to insure ALL appeals are submitted and heard in 5 years. Instead of this LawFare tactic of filing an appeal every time a new execution date is set.
Then, if still guilty, flip the switch, pull the handle, or trigger.
Abolish the lethal inject, let them be awake to see their deaths, like their victims.
Or how about, a death sentence applied in the manner they used on their victims.
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Ignorance of the law is no excuse....so why is insanity? Insanity, dementia, nothing like that should be relevant. The only relevant fact is: Did they commit the crime based on the evidence. Full Stop.
‘Violence interrupters’ federally indicted in connection to north Minneapolis shooting
The men worked for a nonprofit organization called 21 Days of Peace, which has received millions in funding from the Minnesota Legislature. pic.twitter.com/ePvUS7mJCd
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“Although McReynolds did not see a person fire the gunshots, he fired numerous rounds in the general direction from which he thought the gunshots had originated, then ran to the other side of the block and continued shooting.”
I thought the defund the police idea was to have unarmed people take over for the armed cops to deescalate situations.
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They couldn't find anybody to volunteer for the unarmed corp...
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[Regnum] In Munich, police shot dead a 30-year-old woman who had attacked several passersby with a knife in Theresienwiese,
…the square where they hold Octoberfest every year…
the Bild newspaper wrote on June 7.
The emergency occurred at about 20:00 local time (21:00 Moscow time). It is known that the woman stabbed several people. The police shot her. According to the publication, the attacker was taken to the hospital, where emergency surgery was performed, but the woman died.
There is no information about the motives for the attack. The authors of Bild wrote that the woman had mental problems.
The scene of the incident has been cordoned off and police officers are working. There is no information about the condition of the victims.
According to cops, the victims suffered "minor injuries".
Munich Police said in a statement: "On Saturday, June 7, 2025, the Munich police were notified at around 7:45 p.m that a woman had injured a person with a knife in the Theresienwiese area.
"According to current information, she injured a 56-year-old man with a knife in the Westendstraße area. Shortly thereafter, she also injured a 25-year-old woman with a knife near Schwanthaler Höhe.
"When the perpetrator was encountered by officers in the Bavariaring area at St Pauls-Platz and was about to be arrested, police used firearms.
"The woman was injured and subsequently taken to a hospital. She died there shortly thereafter. The woman was a 30-year-old resident of Munich.
Just a few hours prior, at least five people were injured after a car ploughed into a crowd in Germany.
A five-year-old girl is understood to be among the wounded after the horror crash in Passau.
The driver's wife, 38, was also hurt, according to Bild.
It is unclear if the driver intentionally drove into the crowd, according to reports.
Three people were seriously injured, according to a police spokesperson.
The incident occurred around 3.30pm near the main train station in the Bavarian city.
"At this time, it cannot be ruled out that the man deliberately drove the vehicle into the group of people," police told local media.
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Given all the Illegals, PRO-HAMAS and other Biden/Obama allowed in $%^&, that we are now seeing concentrated in Liberal run Metro's. Will this be coming to those areas soon?
[Regnum] Almost three dozen US cities, home to 34 million people, are gradually sinking under water. This is the conclusion reached by scientists from Virginia Tech.
"A comprehensive radar satellite analysis of 28 major U.S. cities shows that in each city, more than 20 percent of the land is submerged," according to a paper published in the journal Nature Cities.
It is noted that this process is slow, several millimeters per year. The researchers named Texas as the fastest sinking territory in the United States. According to their data, 42% of its territory is sinking at a rate of more than 5 mm per year. Experts note that the state of the same name has the most alarming situation overall.
“High rates of subsidence were also recorded in Dallas and Fort Worth <…> Chicago, New York, Detroit, Denver and Indianapolis,” the article specifies.
The slowest rate of warming is in Boston, Portland, and Phoenix, at less than 1 mm per year. Memphis and San Jose, on the other hand, are rising slightly.
According to experts, because of this, 29 thousand buildings in American cities are in high-risk zones.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, an international group of scientists came to the conclusion that if the planet's atmosphere warms up by two degrees more than the pre-industrial era, this will lead to the flooding and destruction of more than 1,500 coastal ecosystems around the world. According to experts, in this case, the rate of sea rise will increase to 7-8 mm per year.
And if it doesn’t, then it won’t. Or possibly something else interesting will happen. The profundity is ineluctibly profound.
Vladimir Pinaev, Associate Professor of the Department of Environmental Safety and Product Quality Management at the RUDN Institute of Ecology, told Regnum that a change in the level of the world's oceans, taking into account the warming of the planet's atmosphere by two or more degrees, could occur in 2080–2100, and thanks to the research of scientists, coastal and island states can begin preparing for possible flooding scenarios in advance.
Here in Cincinnati the suburbs are uphill from the city center, so that takes care of the problem. Or they can go for the Venice solution, which if I recall correctly has worked for over a millennium…
The American newspaper New York Times reported last September that global climate change processes are significantly accelerating the wear and tear of bridges, which could lead to their mass collapses in the United States. Many of them are not designed for the abnormally high air temperatures observed in recent years. At the same time, sharp changes in temperature force the structures of these structures to constantly expand and contract, which increases their wear and tear.
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Extract oil and water and the land sinks. Or add extra weight, like New Orleans, and you get more sinking.
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Wrote a collection of SCIFI short stories back in 2001-15.
One was called: 2036-GOOD TO THE LAST DROP." (c) 2005
It was about the Gulf of Mexico America, a few Mid-west states, and etc, starting to cave in. After having pumped out over 7.5 Million Barrels of oil a day for the last 50+ years, which created over 8 cubic miles of void along the US Coastline and Gulf areas.
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Hey TW, being trained as a geologist at Miami University, for the rest of you readers - the one in Oxford, OH not University of Miami in Florida, I know that the burbs just north of Cincy rest on the terminal moraine.
So not only is the city lower being the Ohio River Valley, the burbs sit on the end glacial deposits from the last ice age.
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Gondola production is a wide open manufacturing field. You could build to stock for a hundred years or so.
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You have to wonder about DFW, what with it being at 600ft above sea level. Most of the problems they have there are due to developers building in the Trinity River bottoms.
Somebody needs to understand: There are no empty caverns that oil was pumped out of.
Oil comes out of sandstone or shale formations. That's why they have to fracture (frac) the rock, to allow it to flow. Which has been going on for a hundred years. It's not like a coal or salt mine with huge empty spaces that can collapse. Oil formations can settle, but nothing like what has happened in the Appalachians above old coal mines.
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burbs just north of Cincy rest on the terminal moraine.
My garden soil is heavy clay with a high level of gravel inclusions, Warthog. I found out why when trailing daughter #1 plumped for geology at the University of Cincinnati — the schools in the area have strong geology departments because there is so much to study. On road trips, her favourite professor would pull over at highway hill cuts, just to see what was there in the layers. Sound familiar? :-)
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Familiar indeed TW. Many a road trip to look at the strata. On another note, Cinci area is a world famous site for Ordovician fossils. Spent a lot of time in my youth cracking open the limestone rocks in creeks and have a nice collection of Trilobites..
🚨Update: Colombian conservative presidential candidate Miguel Uribe in critical condition after assassination attempt! pic.twitter.com/SprBrz8QPa
— US Homeland Security News (@defense_civil25) June 7, 2025
Courtesy of Skidmark:
Right-wing Colombian presidential candidate shot at rally
Senator Miguel Uribe, 39, was attacked by armed subjects during political event in Bogota
[FoxNews] A Colombian senator and presidential candidate was shot on Saturday in Bogotá, the government and his campaign said.
Miguel Uribe, 39, was hosting a campaign event in a public park in the Fontibon neighborhood when "armed subjects shot him in the back."
His party described the attack as serious but didn't go into detail about his condition.
Miguel Uribe, a candidate in next year’s Colombian presidential election, was shot three times, including twice in the head, during a campaign event in Bogota Saturday, paramedics say.
The 39-year-old right-wing opposition senator suffered two gunshot wounds to the head and one to the knee, according to the medical personnel who treated him.
Graphic footage from the scene showed Uribe slumped against the hood of a white car, smeared with blood, as a group of men tried to hold him and stop the bleeding.
A security guard managed to detain the suspected attacker, a minor who is believed to be 15 years old.
Uribe was airlifted to the hospital in “critical condition” where he is undergoing a “neurosurgical” and “peripheral vascular procedure,” the Santa Fe Clinic in Bogota confirmed.
Police director Carlos Fernando Triana said the suspect was injured in the affray and was receiving treatment.
Two others — a man and a woman — were also wounded, and a Glock-style firearm was seized.
Colombia’s minister of defence vowed that the military, police, and intelligence services would deploy “all their capabilities” to find out what happened.
The minister, Pedro Sanchez, also announced a roughly US$725,000 reward for information about who was behind the shooting.
The attack was condemned across the political spectrum and from overseas, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling it “a direct threat to democracy.”
Rubio pointed blame at Colombia’s leftist president Gustavo Petro, claiming the attack was the “result of the violent leftist rhetoric coming from the highest levels of the Colombian government.”
“President Petro needs to dial back the inflammatory rhetoric and protect Colombian officials,” the top US diplomat said.
Petro “categorically and forcefully” condemned the attack.
“This act of violence is an attack not only against his person, but also against democracy, freedom of thought, and the legitimate exercise of politics in Colombia,” the presidency said in the statement.
Petro was due to address the nation late on Saturday evening.
Uribe, a strong critic of Petro, is a member of the Democratic Center party, which announced last October his intention to run in the 2026 presidential election.
Authorities said that there was no specific threat made against the politician before the incident. Like many public figures in Colombia, Uribe had close personal protection.
The country is home to several armed guerrilla groups, powerful cartels, and has a long history of political violence.
Uribe is the son of Diana Turbay, a famed Colombian journalist who was killed after being kidnapped by Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel.
One of his grandfathers was former Colombia president Julio Cesar Turbay, who led the country from 1978 to 1982.
SHOT ‘FROM BEHIND’
Supporters gathered outside the medical facility, lighting candles and clutching crucifixes as they prayed for his recovery.
Uribe’s party said in a statement Saturday that an “armed individual” had shot the senator from behind.
The party leader, former president Alvaro Uribe, described the shooting as an attack against “a hope for the country.”
Miguel Uribe — who is not related to Alvaro — has been a senator since 2022. He previously served as Bogota’s government secretary and city councilor.
He also ran for city mayor in 2019, but lost that election.
[ZeroHedge] President Donald Trump signed executive orders on June 6 to deregulate and open research and development into flying cars and supersonic aviation technology.
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I am not a big fan of governmental regulation. Unregulated flying cars seems like a bad idea.
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Seems like there would be an enormous amount of liability attached to a flying car.
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If large scale manufacturers offer a flying car, stay away from the FIAT version.
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EV Flying Car sales pitch: "Look, fully charged, this baby will have a two and half-mile range in cold weather. Do you have any idea how many KM that is? Impressive"
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Given the way that many people drive, do you really want them flying cars?
Also, if your car runs out of gas, it's really annoying, but usually not fatal. If a flying car runs out of gas, look out.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
