Family members of a woman killed in a 1998 murder are pressing Utah officials to carry on with the perpetrator’s scheduled Aug. 8 execution. Relatives of Claudia Benn offered emotional testimony about the crime on Tuesday. They said it still traumatizes their close-knit Native American community. Inmate Taberon Dave Honie testified Monday that he wasn’t in his “right mind” when he killed his girlfriend’s mother after a day of heavy drinking and drug use. He asked the five-member parole board to commute his sentence to life in prison.
