Utah officials began hearing testimony Monday about whether a man facing execution next month should be spared the death penalty for murdering his girlfriend's
Taberon Honie , who has been on death row for 25 years for the 1998 murder and sexual assault of his girlfriend’s mother Claudia Benn , has been ordered to be executed by lethal injection. Honie was in Fifth District Court in Cedar City, Utah on Monday, June 10, 2024.
The parole board hearing comes after state officials said Saturday that they no longer plan to use an untested combination of execution drugs that Taberon Dave Honie's lawyers said could cause "excruciating pain." They will use a single different drug instead — pentobarbital — which has been used by other states and in federal executions.
Honie's lawyers said a traumatic and violent childhood coupled with his long-time drug abuse, a previous brain injury and extreme intoxication fueled his behavior when he broke into his girlfriend's mother's house and killed her following what Honie's lawyers called "a domestic dispute."
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