Utah Man Who Killed Woman Is Put to Death by Lethal Injection in State’s First Execution Since 2010

Utah Man Who Killed Woman Is Put to Death by Lethal Injection in State’s First Execution Since 2010
Death row inmate Taberon Honie leaves the Utah Board of Pardons commutation hearing at the Utah State Correctional Facility, in Salt Lake City on July 22, 2024. Rick Bowmer/Pool/AP Photo
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SALT LAKE CITY—A Utah man who killed his girlfriend’s mother by slashing her throat was put to death by lethal injection early Thursday in the state’s first execution since 2010.

Taberon Dave Honie, 48, was convicted of aggravated murder in the July 1998 death of Claudia Benn, the maternal grandmother of his now 27-year-old daughter, Tressa.