Daughter of Utah death row inmate navigates complicated dance of grief and healing before execution

(7 Aug 2024)
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Salt Lake City – 23 July 2024
1. Death row inmate Taberon Honie arriving for the Utah Board of Pardons commutation hearing at the Utah State Correctional Facility

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Salt Lake City – 6 August 2024
2. Signage near the Utah State Correctional Facility
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Tressa Honie, daughter of death row inmate:
"I'm Tressa Honie and I'm here to, you know, spend the last few days with my dad, Taberon Honie, who's, you know, going to die August 8th."
4. Tressa Honie near the Utah State Correctional Facility

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Salt Lake City – 23 July 2024
5. Death row inmate Taberon Honie addresses the Utah Board of Pardons commutation hearing
UPSOUND (English) Taberon Dave Honie, Death row Inmate:
"But no matter how much change I make, I can't make that right to that family ... to their family."

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Salt Lake City – 6 August 2024
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Tressa Honie, daughter of death row inmate: :
"He keeps telling me 'you need to be strong and I need to know that you're going to be okay.' But, how are you okay? How ... how do you get through this? It was planned, you know, I had time to prepare since June 10th. But I'm still not ready to lose my dad."
7. Close up of Tressa Honie’s tattoo memorializing her slain grandmother
8. Tressa Honie shows her tattoo
UPSOUND (English) Tressa Honie: "It's a memorial tattoo for my grandma, Claudia Benn."
9. Tressa Honie stands on the roadside near the Utah State Correctional Facility holding her father
10. Alternative shot of the memorial tattoo
UPSOUND (English) Tressa Honie:
"She is my grandma whom my father murdered. That I wish I got to know."
11. Exterior of the Utah State Correctional Facility

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Salt Lake City – 23 July 2024
12. Tressa Honie testifies before the Utah Board of Pardons commutation hearing at the Utah State Correctional Facility
UPSOUND (English) Tressa Honie: "I'm affected on both sides, as that was my grandmother and that's my father. And, you know, 26 years ago, I was robbed a grandmother, and I was also ... he robbed me of himself and for a long time, you know, I've been angry about it, and I've been ... I'm an addict. I'm in recovery."

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Salt Lake City – 6 August 2024
13. Low-angle view of Tressa Honie’s tattoo

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Salt Lake City – 23 July 2024
14. Taberon Dave Honie testifies at his commutation hearing
UPSOUND (English) Taberon Dave Honie, Death row Inmate : "I'm her helper. I'm her guiding light. I'm her pillar. When I took that from the victims and ... she did not say that she would have been okay and I agree. How I had not done what I did, there would have been a safety net for my daughter, for my granddaughter."

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Salt Lake City – 6 August 2024
15. Close up of signage outside the correctional facility
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Tressa Honie, daughter of death row inmate:
"It's emotional for sure. I, caught myself sitting there realizing this is one of the last days I have with him."

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Salt Lake City – 23 July 2024
17. Wide of the Utah Board of Pardons commutation hearing
UPSOUND (English) "We now call Mr. Honie's daughter, Tressa Honie. She has a statement."
18. Tressa Honie testifies at her father’s commutation hearing
UPSOUND (English) Tressa Honie, daughter of death row inmate: : "Also, I feel like my life would have been completely different had I had my maternal grandmother alive still because – from what I know, I didn't get to know her, I was only two years old – but from what I hear, she was a pretty wonderful lady."

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