A man facing execution for 1998 murder addresses Utah parole board, asks for life sentence instead
Associated Press
A man facing execution in Utah has addressed state officials, asking them to spare him the death penalty and allow him to remain imprisoned for life. The two-day commutation hearing began Monday in Salt Lake City for Taberon Dave Honie. He was found guilty of murder in the death of his girlfriend’s mother in 1998. Honie told the parole board that he is not the same person he was when he killed her after drinking and using drugs all day. Attorneys for the state say the attack that killed 49-year-old Claudia Benn was brutal and that Honie said hours before it occurred that he intended to kill her.
