Utah Department of Corrections

Menzies is scheduled to face a firing squad on Sept. 5 for the 1986 murder of Maurine Hunsaker. He still has an appeal to be heard by the Utah Supreme Court.

Ralph Menzies is scheduled to be executed Sept. 5 for the brutal murder of Maurine Hunsaker. At his commutation hearing, her family recounted the pain of losing her nearly four decades ago.

The 67-year-old is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 5. His attorneys argue his vascular dementia and sentencing errors warrant commuting his sentence to life in prison.

While a Utah judge set a September execution date, the court scheduled another hearing to determine whether the inmate with dementia needs another mental evaluation to determine competency.

Hay poco efecto en las operaciones del departamento, pero el acuerdo envía un mensaje de que no se tolerará a los inmigrantes que ingresen al país ilegalmente y cometan delitos.

There’s little effect on the department’s operations, but the agreement sends a message that immigrants who enter the country illegally and commit crimes will not be tolerated.

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.

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.

A working group of state representatives, law enforcement, business leaders and those with lived experience with incarceration want to find innovative solutions to high recidivism in Utah.