Another execution is scheduled in Utah for the first time in fourteen years.
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This is the third execution carried out in Texas since January and the eleventh nationwide since the beginning of the year. Arthur Lee Burton, 54, sentenced to death for the murder of a jogger in 1997, was executed on Wednesday, August 8 by lethal injection. His lawyers appealed – in vain – to the United States Supreme Court for a stay of execution, arguing that he should be exempted from his sentence because he was intellectually disabled. The highest American court rejected their request during the day, without providing comment.
Another execution is scheduled for Thursday in Utah. Taberon Honie, 48, is to be executed in Salt Lake City, also by lethal injection, for the 1998 sexual assault and murder of his former girlfriend’s mother. The western state has not carried out an execution since 2010. The death penalty has been abolished in 23 of the 50 U.S. states. Six others (Arizona, California, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Tennessee) have a moratorium on executions.
