Stop the Execution of Taberon Honie in Utah
Utah Pardon & Parole Board and Governor Spencer J. Cox
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Taberon Honie is scheduled to be executed in Utah on August 8, 2024 for the 1999 murder of Claudia Benn.
The Utah Board of Pardons & Parole held a clemency hearing on July 22 & 23 and is expected to issue its decision in the next week or two. Read news reports about the clemency hearing here and here. Taberon Honie is deeply remorseful, and is the not the same person that he was at age 22, when the crime was committed more than 25 years ago.
According to news reports, mitigating evidence about his difficult childhood were heard for the first time in an official proceeding during the clemency hearing. Certainly, he has behaved well in prison and is not a future threat. If he receives mercy, he hopes to be part of his daughter's and granddaughter's lives as best as he can from prison.
Additional information is forthcoming.
In seeking its first execution since 2010, Utah positions itself to become an outlier in its use of the death penalty. The majority of U.S. states are on a downward trend of executions, and increasingly, states are abolishing the practice altogether, including the southern state of Virginia, which repealed its death penalty law in 2021. Only a handful of states that has carried out an execution since 2020.Please sign the petition asking Spencer J. Cox to do everything within his power to prevent an execution from occurring, including issuing a stay and seeking a path to clemency in the case.
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Utah Pardon & Parole Board and Governor Spencer J. Cox
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[Your Name]
We are writing to ask that you not allow the execution of Taberon Honie on August 8, 2024 for the 1999 murder of Claudia Benn.
Taberon Honie is deeply remorseful, and is the not the same person that he was at age 22, when the crime was committed more than 25 years ago. According to news reports, mitigating evidence about his difficult childhood were heard for the first time in an official proceeding during the clemency hearing. Certainly, he has behaved well in prison and is not a future threat. If he receives mercy, he hopes to be part of his daughter's and granddaughter's lives as best as he can from prison.
We are concerned that while the vast majority of states with capital punishment continue on a downward trend of executions, Utah seeks to go against this trend by seeking out executions.
We, the undersigned, ask that you do everything within your power to stop this execution, including issuing a stay, and seeking a path to clemency in the case.
Thank you for time and attention to this urgent and serious matter.