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SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) -- Monday marked day one of the several-day commutation hearing for death row inmate Taberon Dave Honie, whose execution has been scheduled for Aug. 8.
Honie was convicted of aggravated murder in May 1999 for the death of Claudia Benn, 49, who was his girlfriend's mother. He was sentenced to death that same month.
The commutation hearing that began on July 22 was centered around Honie's defense working to convince the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole to change Honie's sentence from the death penalty to life in prison.
Honie himself spoke at the hearing on Monday, in addition to his mother, his daughter, and his counsel. Honie discussed the day in 1998 when he killed Benn.
"That's the part that I'm torn apart about," Honie said at the hearing. "How can I come and ask you guys to spare me when I took her? I have no answer."
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