Utah State Correctional Facility

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.

At Fit From Within’s first half-marathon at the Utah State Correctional Facility, inmates ran alongside state lawmakers. They say the program is about gaining more than just physical health.

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.

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.

Families described mosquito infestations and insufficient access to medication after inmates moved in two years ago. Now, they say there has been good progress.

The Utah Department of Corrections brought in help from other state agencies to address medical issues at the new Salt Lake City facility.

“In the last six weeks, and four of those weeks have been in the new prison, the Utah Prisoner Advocate Network has received 73 emails related to significant medical concern,” said the advocacy group's director and cofounder.