TIMELINE: Why is Taberon Honie being executed?

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Taberon Honie will become Utah's eighth execution since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976.

He is scheduled to die by lethal injection - a sentence imposed 25 years before after he admitted to brutally murdering his ex-girlfriend's mother, Claudia Benn.

She was also the grandmother to his daughter.

MORE INFO:Final execution protocols underway hours before Taberon Honie's scheduled death

According to court documents [Honie v. Powell, 58 F.4th 1173 (10th Cir. 2023)], he stabbed her to death after threatening his ex-girlfriend, telling her that he would kill her family if she didn't see him.

Here's a timeline of key events in Taberon Honie's life, which is scheduled to end at midnight on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024.

UTAH DEATH ROW INMATE TABERON HONIE: FROM CRIME TO PUNISHMENT

1995

• Honie begins a relationship with Carol Pikyavit
• The couple has a daughter together

1998

• Honie and Pikyavit end their relationship
• July 9: Honie threatens Pikyavit and her family members
• July 9-10: Honie breaks into the home of Claudia Marie Benn, Pikyavit's mother
• July 10: Honie murders and sexually assaults Benn, stabbing her multiple times
• July 10: Police arrest Honie at the crime scene

1999

• May 20: Honie is sentenced to death for aggravated murder, burglary, object rape, and forcible sodomy

2002

• January 11: Honie loses his first round of appeals
• June 24: The Supreme Court decides Ring v. Arizona, establishing that juries must determine aggravating factors in capital cases

2003

• Honie seeks postconviction relief in Utah district court

2005

• Honie submits an affidavit claiming he didn't understand aspects of his jury waiver and that he had asked his attorney to withdraw the waiver

2011

• Utah district court denies relief on each of Honie's claims

2013

• Honie files another appeal, citing inadequate defense and personal background issues

2014

• Utah Supreme Court denies Honie's appeal

2015

• May: Honie petitions for federal habeas relief in the District of Utah

2019

• June 12: The federal district court denies all of Honie's claims for relief

2024

• May 1: Utah Attorney General files request for Honie's execution warrant
• May 24: Judge denies lawsuit challenging Utah's execution methods
• June 10: Honie's execution date set for August 8, 2024
• June 18: Honie files petition for clemency
• June 24: Honie's attorney files motions to halt the execution
• July 22: Utah Board of Pardons and Parole hears Honie's plea for commutation
• July 26: Board denies Honie's request for clemency
• July 30: Judge dismisses case seeking to delay sentence over state's use and handling of drugs it will use to carry out death penalty
• Aug. 1: Honie's attorneys ask Utah Gov. Spencer Cox for temporary reprieve
• Aug. 6: Cox denies request for temporary reprieve

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