Utah death row inmate who is imprisoned for 1998 murder asks parole board for mercy ahead of hearing
Associated Press
Utah officials are set to hear testimony about whether a man facing execution should be spared the death penalty and remain imprisoned for life. Monday’s state parole board hearing is for Taberon Dave Honie, who was convicted of the 1998 murder of his girlfriend’s mother. His execution is scheduled for Aug. 8 and would be Utah’s first since a man was killed by firing squad in 2010. A two-day hearing is scheduled on Honie’s commutation request. His attorneys blame poor legal advice for allowing him to be sentenced by a judge instead of a jury that might have been more sympathetic to him and spared him death.
