Death row inmate Taberon Honie granted commutation hearing
Jun 28, 2024, 5:48 PM

The fencing that surrounds the Utah State Correctional Facility in Salt Lake City is pictured on Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. (Laura Seitz/Deseret News)
(Laura Seitz/Deseret News)
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Board of Pardons and Parole has granted a commutation hearing for death-row inmate Taberon Honie. This comes almost three weeks after a judge signed Honie’s death warrant.
Honie was sentenced to death in 1999 for the murder of his ex-girlfriend’s mother.
Honie’s legal team submitted a petition for this hearing to the board earlier this month. It’s his last chance to avoid lethal injection in August.
The board said it would hold the hearing in July where Honie’s team and the state can both present their testimony.
This hearing could potentially change Honie’s death sentence to life without parole.
It’s been over a decade since Utah granted the last commutation hearing, but the board did not change the outcome of the death sentence in that case.