Utah man put to death by lethal injection in state’s first execution since 2010

After decades of failed appeals, execution warrant was signed in June despite objections to planned lethal drug

A Utah man who killed his girlfriend's mother by slashing 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, the maternal grandmother of his now 27-year-old daughter, Tressa.