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Utah carries out its first execution since 2010: Taberon Honie killed his girlfriend's mother by slitting her throat
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Salt Lake City — A Utah man who killed his girlfriend's mother by cutting her throat was put to death by lethal injection early Thursday in the state's first execution since 2010.
Taberon Dave Honie, 48, was convicted of aggravated murder in the July 1998 death of Claudia Benn.
Honie was 22 when he broke into Benn's house in Cedar City after a day of heavy drinking and drug use and repeatedly slashed her throat and stabbed her in other parts of her body. Benn's grandchildren, including Honie's then 2-year-old daughter, were in the house at the time.
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