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, Utah – 23 July 2024
1. Various of death row inmate Taberon Honie at the Utah Board of Pardons commutation hearing at the Utah State Correctional Facility

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Salt Lake City, Utah – 6 August 2024
2. Signage near the Utah State Correctional Facility
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Tressa Honie, Father Set for Execution for Killing Her Grandmother:
"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, Utah – 23 July 2024
5. Tressa Honie testifies before the Utah Board of Pardons commutation hearing at the Utah State Correctional Facility
SOUNDBITE (English) Tressa Honie, Father Set for Execution for Killing Her Grandmother:
"Twenty six 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, Utah – 23 July 2024
6. Death row inmate Taberon Honie at a Utah Board of Pardons commutation hearing

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Salt Lake City, Utah – 6 August 2024
7. Tressa Honie stands on the roadside near the Utah State Correctional Facility holding her father
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Tressa Honie, Father Set for Execution for Killing Her Grandmother:
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"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."

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Salt Lake City, Utah – 23 July 2024
9. Death row inmate Taberon Honie addresses the Utah Board of Pardons commutation hearing

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Salt Lake City, Utah – 6 August 2024
10. Exterior of the Utah State Correctional Facility
11. Close up of signage outside the correctional facility

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Salt Lake City, Utah – 6 August 2024
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Tressa Honie, Father Set for Execution for Killing Her Grandmother:
"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, Utah – 23 July 2024
13. Death row inmate Taberon Honie at a Utah Board of Pardons commutation hearing

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Salt Lake City, Utah – 6 August 2024
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Tressa Honie, Father Set for Execution for Killing Her Grandmother:
"I think my grief had to do with just how dysfunctional my family became. As far as, you know, my mother went down into her own deep end, losing her mother and, you know, like I said, not being a real mother to me."
15. Close up of Tressa Honie’s tattoo memorializing her slain grandmother
STORYLINE:
Tressa Honie is caught between anger and grief in the lead-up to Utah’s first execution since 2010.

That’s because her father Taberon Dave Honie is the person set to die by lethal injection and her grandmother is the person he brutally murdered in 1998.

The heinous intrafamilial crime has placed a strain on her relationships for more than two decades as she’s kept in touch with her father while her mother’s family has fought for him to be put to death.

Tressa Honie is dealing with a flood of emotions ahead of the execution set for shortly after midnight on Aug. 8 at the Utah state prison.

AP Video shot by Rick Bowmer.

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