Criminal Justice

Utah has a combined $56 million in settlement funds that counties are deciding how to spend. Critics question if police gear and wages are the best use of the money — saying treatment and recovery have historically been underfunded.

El programa de eliminación automática de antecedentes penales de Utah está actualmente en pausa para hacer frente a un retraso.

Utah’s automatic expungement program is currently paused to address a backlog.

The Weber County Sheriff’s Office has pushed for years to improve the jail’s medical and mental health facilities.

Stevoni Doyle, of Santaquin, said she wanted people with drug addiction to know there is always hope. Others pardoned include a nonprofit leader who supports at-risk youth, a social worker who fosters animals and a counselor and recovery coach.

The bond doesn’t pay for the criminal justice services – it only funds the infrastructure.

Honie, 48, was convicted of aggravated murder in the brutal July 1998 death of his girlfriend’s mother, Claudia Benn. His execution followed decades of failed appeals.

Tressa Honie is caught between anger and grief. That’s because her father, Taberon Dave Honie, was executed by lethal injection and her grandmother is the person he brutally murdered in 1998.

Taberon Dave Honie is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Aug. 8 for the 1998 killing of his girlfriend’s mother.

Relatives of victim Claudia Benn offered emotional testimony about the crime on Tuesday before Utah's parole board. They said her slashing and stabbing death still traumatizes their close-knit Native American community.

The two-day commutation hearing began Monday in Salt Lake City for Taberon Dave Honie. He was found guilty of murder in the death of his girlfriend’s mother in 1998.

Honie is scheduled for execution on Aug. 8. Defense attorneys had filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the use of the cocktail of ketamine, fentanyl and potassium chloride.