when was the last death penalty in utah

The last death penalty execution in Utah took place on September 5, 2025. The inmate executed was Ralph Leroy Menzies, and the method used was a firing squad. This marked Utah's most recent execution after a period without executions since the last one in 2010 when Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed, also by firing squad. Utah continues to allow firing squad as a method of execution under certain conditions if lethal injection drugs are unavailable.