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I agree and feel like people are simply more interested in callous retribution than actual justice when it comes to the death penalty, but I can't say I will weep for this man:

On the evening of July 9, 1998, Taberon Honie called Carol Pikyavit, demanding that she immediately visit him and threatened to kill several of her family members if she did not comply.[2] Hours later, Honie broke into the house of Pikyavit's mother, Claudia Marie Benn, in Cedar City, Utah. Honie then began to attack Benn with a kitchen knife, slashing her throat four times from ear to ear, with the slashes being deep enough to reach her backbone.[2][4] In the early hours of the next day, police officers came to Benn's house, responding to a 911 call from one of her neighbors. The responding officers found a smashed window and Benn's corpse partially naked, with her being mutilated and having deep stab wounds to her anus and vagina.[2][3] They also located Honie in Benn's garage, arresting him after he was found with blood residue on his fingertips. During Honie's arrest, he stated at one point; "I stabbed her. I killed her with a knife."[5][2] The responding officers then located Benn's three infant and toddler-aged granddaughters in the same house, with them being covered in blood.[2] One of Benn's granddaughters was also sexually abused by Honie, right after Benn's murder, causing genital injuries to her granddaughter.[3]