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The last time the state executed a man was in 2010, when <a href=\"https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=52028805&itype=CMSID\">Ronnie Lee Gardner was killed by firing squad</a>. Utah’s last <a href=\"https://www.deseret.com/1999/10/15/19470687/parsons-gets-his-death-wish-br-he-takes-a-final-dig-at-his-victim-before-execution/\">lethal injection death</a> was in 1999."},{"_id":"ETDSS2ZDYNDLBMXIEHIPUACT5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1723094281427},"type":"text","content":"Gardner’s brother, Randy Gardner, was at the free speech zone Wednesday night. He said he has never supported the death penalty, and pointed out that South Carolina’s Supreme Court <a href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/south-carolina-supreme-court-rules-state-death-penalty-112440936#:~:text=COLUMBIA%2C%20S.C.,least%20part%20of%20the%20ruling.\" target=\"_blank\">recently ruled that executions by firing squad</a> (or lethal injection or the electric chair) are constitutional. 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They argued in their request for an injunction that the zone is in a “completely uninhabited area,” away from residences, businesses and outside the view of the prison, which they contended violates their rights to free speech."},{"_id":"2X54QMZAXBCCLDI2HKQBYAIHSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1723066718320},"type":"text","content":"“It is impossible to see the prison from this location. Hence, it is impossible to be seen by anyone at the prison whether they be prison staff, guards, volunteers, inmates, or the general public,” the document states."},{"_id":"HGQEU7MUFJAGTOMMZXQOUWXIXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1723066718323},"type":"text","content":"Judge Laura Scott denied the request Wednesday evening, saying attorney Tyler Ayers hadn’t properly filed the request and that she couldn’t determine from the “very limited information provided” whether the protest zone’s location “burdens substantially more speech than necessary.”"},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"sltrib"},"copyright":"© Francisco Kjolseth 2024","address":{},"syndication":{"search":false,"external_distribution":false},"auth":{"1":"c0f1ed97f00cc6c47cadb175ca63a7ee0671a02b78a431c059caf89ebd7c1588"},"caption":"(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rony Charles of Salt Lake City expresses his opposition to capital punishment at a free speech zone outside the Utah State Correctional Facility in Salt Lake City, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024.","source":{"system":"photo center","edit_url":"","additional_properties":{"editor":"photo center"}},"taxonomy":{"associated_tasks":[]},"type":"image","version":"0.10.9","url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sltrib/RLBWT6RCY5FLBLPKJ5ONZCFWFY.jpg","licensable":false,"credits":{"affiliation":[{"name":"Francisco Kjolseth","type":"author"}],"by":[{"name":"Francisco Kjolseth","type":"author","byline":"Francisco Kjolseth"}]},"width":2800,"creditIPTC":"Francisco Kjolseth","_id":"RLBWT6RCY5FLBLPKJ5ONZCFWFY","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/K7MNU2b1_I1swF9mqafs_JN7GN8=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/RLBWT6RCY5FLBLPKJ5ONZCFWFY.jpg","iptc_job_identifier":"UTSAC","keywords":[""],"proxyUrl":"/resizer/K7MNU2b1_I1swF9mqafs_JN7GN8=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/RLBWT6RCY5FLBLPKJ5ONZCFWFY.jpg","takenOn":"2024-08-08T03:10:30Z","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sltrib/RLBWT6RCY5FLBLPKJ5ONZCFWFY.jpg","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/K7MNU2b1_I1swF9mqafs_JN7GN8=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/RLBWT6RCY5FLBLPKJ5ONZCFWFY.jpg","ingestionMethod":"manual","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/nESBuybIpAYqgjlz2PHvLc6iZms=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/RLBWT6RCY5FLBLPKJ5ONZCFWFY.jpg","version":0,"usage_instructions":"Deseret News OUT, KSL OUT, KUTV OUT, KTVX OUT","originalName":"Honie Execution 4375.jpg","mime_type":"image/jpeg","restricted":false,"template_id":335,"galleries":[],"_id":"7SYRK6IK6BGHFIQLCGQOXWHENI","iptc_title":"STAFF"},"created_date":"2024-08-08T03:19:34Z","last_updated_date":"2024-08-08T03:19:34Z","height":1867,"image_type":"photograph","status":""},{"_id":"FCYKQKLR65CYLGBIKNYBVF257U","additional_properties":{"_id":1723088494630},"type":"text","content":"The advocates had asked for an alternative protest area to be established closer to the prison, though still outside the facility’s gates. “In short, allowing the parties to demonstrate in this location creates an opportunity for free speech as opposed to eliminating all likelihood in the currently proposed Free Speech Zone,” the filing said."},{"_id":"PLAUYURRTZDLNGZ3YJZLBZFO7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1723099043738},"type":"text","content":"Randy Gardner was one of the plaintiffs. “We should be able to be closer to the prison,” he said in the zone Wednesday night. At his brother’s execution, he said, protesters were allowed to gather across the street from the former prison in Draper."},{"_id":"HPQDH34FMZEUTNV642VIILGRKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1723099043739},"type":"text","content":"Mills said the majority of the land near the prison is private property, limiting where officials could establish the free speech area. He also said the planned location was made public about two months ago."},{"_id":"H35ZPMN7SBGMPPZUEM2ZFOWSLU","additional_properties":{"_id":1723067196711},"type":"text","content":"“We understand and value the right to demonstrate both for and against the death penalty,” Mills said. “We found the closest and safest and most reasonable space to allow for protesters.”"},{"_id":"L4J6TLQHZVE4DDCEXA7RRDH534","additional_properties":{"_id":1722601112794},"type":"raw_html","content":"<div id=\"newsletter-embed\" class=\"newsletter-embeds-recaptcha\"></div>\n<script src=\"https://newsletter-embeds.s3.amazonaws.com/top-stories.js\"><\/script>\n<script src=\"https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js\" async defer><\/script>\n<script\n src=\"https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/axios/1.6.0/axios.min.js\"\n integrity=\"sha512-WrdC3CE9vf1nBf58JHepuWT4x24uTacky9fuzw2g/3L9JkihgwZ6Cfv+JGTtNyosOhEmttMtEZ6H3qJWfI7gIQ==\"\n crossorigin=\"anonymous\"\n referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\n><\/script>\n<script\n src=\"https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js?onload=onloadCallback&render=explicit\"\n async\n defer\n><\/script>\n<script>\n function onSignUp() {\n const token = grecaptcha.getResponse();\n if (!token) {\n alert(\"Please verify the reCAPTCHA!\");\n } else {\n axios\n .post(\n \"https://8c0ug47jei.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/dev/newsletter/checkCaptcha\",\n {\n token,\n env: \"PROD\",\n }\n )\n .then(({ data: { message } }) => {\n console.log(message);\n if (message === \"Human 👨 👩\") {\n document.getElementById(\"submit-btn\").removeAttribute(\"disabled\");\n } else {\n console.log(\"ROBOTO\");\n }\n });\n }\n }\n<\/script>\n"},{"_id":"MG777S7C7ZC4JC6PN7ZHEP7L3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1723066718325},"type":"text","content":"Randy Gardner held a large sign that said, “All life is precious,” in the zone Wednesday night. SueZann Bosler, co-founder of Journey of Hope, held up the other side."},{"_id":"4PQ5AGQ23FBJBATWLXTZF6P34I","additional_properties":{"_id":1723099043743},"type":"text","content":"Bosler started advocating against the death penalty after she and her father were both assaulted by someone with a knife, she said. Her father died and she survived. She said it was his wish that his assailant not be executed, and it took her years to fully accept and share his belief."},{"_id":"FVTLSI6VA5GHROHCYZ6ETVVQOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1723099043744},"type":"text","content":"Now she travels the country with other anti-death penalty advocates to protest capital punishment and, she hopes, eventually to help end it. ”I’m a victim survivor, that’s why I’m still here, is I’m going to abolish the death penalty,” she said."},{"_id":"3IW5N5B2BRACNOI4Z3XX5CR25M","additional_properties":{"_id":1723099043745},"type":"text","content":"She also took issue with the site of the free speech zone, saying she and other advocates held signs outside the prison on Tuesday. Why couldn’t they have returned there Wednesday night, she asked, also questioning the choice to execute Honie at midnight — “so that not as many people go (protest),” she said."},{"_id":"HDHFGTQXRJCFHOFHP5CNKJYUEE","additional_properties":{"_id":1723099043746},"type":"text","content":"At the Capitol earlier Wednesday, about a dozen anti-death penalty advocates also called for an end to capital punishment in Utah. They said they collected thousands of signatures urging state leaders to halt all executions, including Honie’s planned lethal injection."},{"_id":"X2IMINNZSRB6ZG4DTWPPEQMY3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1723066718326},"type":"text","content":"“The death penalty does nothing but repay suffering with suffering,” said the Rev. Kenneth Vialpando, the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City’s vicar for the clergy. “It does not provide justice, does not restore dignity, does not make us safer as a society.”"},{"copyright":"Copyright 2024 The Salt Lake Tribune. 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A planned protest and vigil is expected in the free speech zone location beginning at about 11 p.m. Wednesday."},{"_id":"A2CBMMOUVNCYHJGWMROHTQKTC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1723066718328},"type":"text","content":"Randy Gardner also was one of the petitioners. He said at the afternoon protest that he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after his brother’s 2010 execution."},{"_id":"PY3F7DWVINGWDBDF4P7JNWHDYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1723066718329},"type":"text","content":"“That day is one that lives on forever,” he said Wednesday. “... 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Later that evening, Honie took a cab to Benn’s home. He broke the door in with a rock and then Honie beat and bit her, slashed her throat, stabbed her genitals multiple times and had prepared to have anal sex with her before realizing she had died. Three children were in the home during the attack, including his daughter and a child that he also sexually assaulted that same evening."},{"_id":"GRBZZJYIQJAWZAONK2OV2VJLL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1723066718334},"type":"text","content":"A judge sentenced Honie to death in 1999, and he has been appealing that decision ever since — including several efforts in recent weeks where he asked Utah’s parole board for clemency and filed a lawsuit challenging the untested three-drug combination prison officials initially planned to use in his execution."},{"_id":"ZASDPJXA5ZHRBL2GVRSGJ5T27I","additional_properties":{"_id":1722601112797},"type":"text","content":"The parole board declined to commute his sentence. And prison officials changed course on the drugs, opting instead to <a href=\"https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/07/26/taberon-honie-execution-how-much/\">pay $200,000 to obtain the nervous system depressant pentobarbital.</a> That drug has been used in executions in other states, and acts as both the anesthetic to ensure that Honie does not feel pain and as the fatal drug that will kill him. <a href=\"https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/07/30/taberon-honies-attorneys-argue/\" target=\"_blank\">A judge last week dismissed his lawsuit</a>."},{"_id":"3XSTE7ZC2ZGPZPTOGKDZSACFBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1723066718337},"type":"text","content":"In a news release Wednesday, nonprofit Restoring Ancestral Winds honored Benn, who they said was a member of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah. The tribal coalition works to address domestic violence and sexual assault in the Great Basin region of Utah, and in its statement, highlighted the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous relatives in the state."},{"_id":"IKCKNBNQAVHE5LJNPZ4LGHPXUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1723066718338},"type":"text","content":"“While Honie is scheduled for execution, the impact of his actions will continue to resonate deeply with those who knew and loved Claudia,” the release stated. “She was a beloved mother and grandmother and a beacon of strength and resilience in her community.”"},{"_id":"E7C2CRHNPBGQVG3PN2RMHV33TE","additional_properties":{"_id":1723066718339},"type":"text","content":"The statement added that the children who witnessed the attack still bear “emotional and psychological scars” that continue to be a “painful reminder of the ongoing consequences of this tragic event.”"},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"sltrib"},"address":{},"syndication":{"search":false,"external_distribution":false},"auth":{"1":"070563e3bc736de2250ab1d59f7972cdd68eec4ada584a9a90efa931b99003e7"},"caption":"(Utah Department of Corrections) A table inside the execution chamber at the Utah State Correctional Facility. 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A team will then set up an IV line before curtains are opened for witnesses to observe the execution. Those witnesses will include reporters, law enforcement and possibly Utah’s attorney general, Honie’s chosen witnesses and possibly Benn’s close family members."},{"_id":"GBDNFQBTBBAJJPDOBP6READX4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1723066718341},"type":"text","content":"Honie will be given two minutes to say any last words before the execution begins. The execution team, according to prison protocols, should include at least two members who are either trained as a phlebotomist, emergency medical technician, paramedic or military corpsman."},{"_id":"6XQKXTQ275GHVJP2EBQ5VZ4EXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1722601112800},"type":"text","content":"Honie is one of <a href=\"https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/08/05/utah-death-penalty-who-is-death/\" target=\"_blank\">seven men who have been sentenced to death</a> in Utah and are currently in various stages of appealing their sentences. 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But in making that ask, Honie questioned aloud whether he deserves their mercy after brutally killing Claudia Benn, his ex-girlfriend’s mother, in 1998 while three children — including his own young daughter — were in Benn’s Cedar City home."},{"_id":"BLXTVJNNOFCDLDZO7SUP4GL2A4","additional_properties":{"_id":1721685192005},"type":"text","content":"“I don’t know how I can come and ask you guys to spare me when I took Claudia,” Honie said. “But I owe it to my daughter and my mother to come ask if it’s a possibility.”"},{"_id":"XB2VL32FNZD4DGSEUJEZKOESWI","additional_properties":{"_id":1721685192006},"type":"text","content":"He’s changed from the 22-year-old man who killed Benn, Honie told them. And had he not been extremely intoxicated that night in 1998, he said, he doesn’t believe he would have killed her. 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And by stripping these children of their culture, the professor said, they never learned family skills and missed out on participating in Hopi culture."},{"_id":"MXWORFOXJRDJLOEFXCOSNMTSHA","additional_properties":{"_id":1721685192031},"type":"text","content":"“They were removed from their parents. They no longer had the examples of their parents,” Gilbert said. “They no longer had the opportunity to learn from their parents, aunties and uncles, or other village members.”"},{"_id":"CBLKXJLENND3FCGGDEAU5DP2EQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1721685192032},"type":"text","content":"So by the time Honie’s parents were raising their own children, they didn’t have parenting examples from their own childhood to draw from. 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Reynolds concluded that Honie had been exposed to trauma fairly relentlessly through childhood, and that affected him as an adult: Not just in his own drug and alcohol use, but in his ability to handle normal conflicts in relationships."},{"_id":"XH2FSSOKHBCFTCBFMNEE2D5E4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1721685192035},"type":"text","content":"“The model he had [from his parents] was infidelity, fighting, leaving,” Reynolds said. “He didn’t have another model.”"},{"_id":"BFSGOJC5KFA5JNM7BVGFJRHM4A","additional_properties":{"_id":1721685192036},"type":"text","content":"Honie’s mother, Teresita, told the parole board Monday that she worked hard to provide for her family, and turned away food stamps or other government help. 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He earned his high school diploma in prison — an effort, his attorneys have said, he made for his daughter so she wouldn’t use his lack of education as an excuse to derail her own."},{"_id":"57XC6WOWLFFM5AL74JP3LXMJ44","additional_properties":{"_id":1721685192040},"type":"text","content":"His daughter, Tressa, told the board that she feels stuck in the middle of this painful family chapter, with “noise everywhere.” She was just two years old when her father killed her grandmother."},{"_id":"XOFG4ML4UJD2RPZCATVW2DFQQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1721685192041},"type":"text","content":"“I’m affected on both sides. That was my grandmother and that’s my father,” Tressa said. “Twenty-six years ago, I was robbed of a grandmother. 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The DOJ report found that Utah has a yearslong waitlist for people with disabilities to receive services, including employment help. Disabled Utahns are waiting an average of 5.4 years to get services from the Division of Services for People with Disabilities, and as of June, there are more than 900 people on the division’s waitlist who want help with getting a job."},{"_id":"4ZL35HFQ4VFR5E7ISHRQNBHERQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1720212478202},"type":"text","content":"For years, advocacy groups have tried to alert state officials that Utah was funneling people with disabilities into segregated settings during the day, rather than helping them within the community. 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Several are focused on disinfecting trays, while others are working that day stapling cardboard placards to small plastic bags filled with parts."},{"_id":"G2JAY2ECLRH7RAIOXKZD6SZAIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1720539064290},"type":"text","content":"In another room, workers examine expiration dates on Coca-Cola cans — dumping out the soda that’s expired, and wiping down the cans that are still eligible to be repacked and sold. One man smiles as he carefully squiggles lines of hot glue on the flaps of a Cactus Cooler 12-pack box before folding the ends together."},{"_id":"Q4LAN6EM3NDF7LFS3SGNWUY6LI","additional_properties":{"_id":1720212478210},"type":"text","content":"They work at EnableUtah, a nonprofit organization that receives state funding, along with contracts from businesses to have this type of labor done."},{"_id":"Z7HYBXI6FZBZVNEBYGRRUABX3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1720212478211},"type":"text","content":"“We work with individuals to help them,” said Gavin Hutchinson, EnabledUtah’s CEO. “What we do is we teach them the work, and provide them job opportunities while we’re trying to find them jobs in the community.”"},{"owner":{"id":"sltrib"},"copyright":"2024 Trent Nelson","address":{},"syndication":{"search":"","external_distribution":""},"auth":{"1":"4639eb45874b95dc258397b77a5048d0c40766b69a5fde41060df5ef5cbd30b5"},"caption":"(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) John, a worker at EnableUtah in Ogden on Tuesday, July 2, 2024.","source":{"system":"photo center","edit_url":"","additional_properties":{"editor":"photo center"}},"taxonomy":{},"type":"image","version":"0.10.9","url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sltrib/3Y74KFQMINC4TCMGZ6JCYXNZMU.jpg","licensable":false,"credits":{"affiliation":[],"by":[{"name":"Trent Nelson","type":"author","byline":"Trent Nelson"}]},"subtitle":"TRIB BEST","width":4000,"_id":"3Y74KFQMINC4TCMGZ6JCYXNZMU","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/RGG2KDBdOQFJu0umI0_4JM5cl34=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/3Y74KFQMINC4TCMGZ6JCYXNZMU.jpg","iptc_source":"staff","keywords":["2024","usa","utah"],"proxyUrl":"/resizer/RGG2KDBdOQFJu0umI0_4JM5cl34=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/3Y74KFQMINC4TCMGZ6JCYXNZMU.jpg","takenOn":"2024-07-02T17:16:38Z","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sltrib/3Y74KFQMINC4TCMGZ6JCYXNZMU.jpg","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/RGG2KDBdOQFJu0umI0_4JM5cl34=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/3Y74KFQMINC4TCMGZ6JCYXNZMU.jpg","ingestionMethod":"manual","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/16-KqX-wOoJh0hu1xmromcHckL4=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/3Y74KFQMINC4TCMGZ6JCYXNZMU.jpg","version":0,"usage_instructions":"j=","originalName":"DOJDISABILITYEMPLOYMENT.07XX24-2-tn-6490.jpg","mime_type":"image/jpeg","restricted":false,"template_id":335,"galleries":[],"_id":"L7BVGSACSNFVJMXAFK5HV3X4XM"},"created_date":"2024-07-02T19:44:50Z","last_updated_date":"2024-07-02T19:44:50Z","slug":"DOJDISABILITYEMPLOYMENT.07XX24","height":2667,"image_type":"photograph","status":""},{"_id":"SPY2AIZU2VCINL6Q4FMGQODH5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1720212478213},"type":"text","content":"But these are the types of settings which often keep people with disabilities sequestered and away from nondisabled people, according to the DOJ."},{"_id":"TLR7Z2U2RJG5ZM6O3R2LBORKBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1720212478214},"type":"text","content":"Those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (referred to in the report as people with “I/DD”) want to work and spend their days in their communities, the DOJ report says. And with the right support, they say Utahns with disabilities can find jobs in typical workplaces for the same pay as those who are not disabled — and they can spend their free time doing things like shopping, taking exercise classes or meeting up with a friend at a restaurant."},{"_id":"JDD6ETS5XJBQ5BBY7MQUOXW44U","additional_properties":{"_id":1720539064296},"type":"text","content":"Right now, some of the programs which offer Utahns with disabilities ways to spend their time during the day are structured in a way where they sit in large groups and color, watch TV or sit idle, the DOJ found."},{"_id":"KYCR6F7MNZA3NEFNBIU4ROIXYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1720212478215},"type":"text","content":"“On paper, Utah offers all the services that people with I/DD need to spend their days fully integrated into the community,” the DOJ report reads. “But in practice, it is difficult for people with I/DD to access these services in integrated settings. 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She didn’t want to."},{"_id":"HFUMBESMMRBSVBOYBQZGQIDPPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1720212478220},"type":"text","content":"When he asked why, she said, “Because I’m made fun of out there. Here, I’m with my friends. I’m one of the smart ones. And I’m comfortable here.”"},{"_id":"B23GVR77U5HXVAYONBIRXGHX5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1720212478221},"type":"text","content":"EnableUtah is providing a service to people who share her preference, Hutchinson said — but he worries the state could respond to the DOJ report by eliminating sheltered workshops. Several other states have phased out these sheltered settings."},{"_id":"HAATATTCOJAJLAAG6LXZOPS7VQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1720539064304},"type":"text","content":"He believes Utah could instead improve its services by having a single office that helps someone with a disability, rather than having services spread across several agencies. 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Hutchinson explained that the organization determines wages based on output — if a nondisabled worker is able to package 10 widgets in a 50-minute period, management may decide that work is worth $10, a dollar for every package. If a person with a disability packages four items in that same time period, he said, they would make $4. Hutchinson said this allows workers more autonomy."},{"_id":"ZUR24NUBMBH7NAOIO46BHO7GNE","additional_properties":{"_id":1720212478225},"type":"text","content":"“The goal is always to get them to increase that efficiency,” he said. “It’s a motivator, right? That you know what, I work faster, I can make more [money].”"},{"_id":"CWJJYXLVFBA7LDB36XL3B5LV3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1720212478226},"type":"text","content":"Not everyone agrees that this practice helps those with disabilities. That includes Matthew Wappett, who is the executive director of the Utah State University Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice. He said paying those with disabilities below minimum wage is “exploitation of a population that cannot advocate for themselves.”"},{"_id":"3MPLFSNY3BARVCO6DK6UKQRQUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1720212478227},"type":"text","content":"“If we really believe that people with disabilities are important, valuable members of our community, then they should be compensated fairly,” he said. “I wouldn’t want to go build cardboard boxes for 25 cents an hour. Thankfully, I have a choice. I have a choice where I want to work, and I have the ability to go and advocate for myself. A lot of times people with disabilities don’t always have those supports.”"},{"_id":"C2PIAI3ICFEW7CJMMGNSFNSWEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1720212478228},"type":"text","content":"Wappett said Utahns with disabilities are often coming out of high school and into state services, where they aren’t given a choice or chance to work anywhere else but a sheltered workshop. 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She’s had other jobs since then, and has been working for nearly three years at KFC — a job she says she enjoys."},{"_id":"VJWTMBBECNDOHMQOJ6MJ45WWV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1720212478232},"type":"text","content":"She recalled in a recent interview how, earlier that day, there was a lot going on at the Utah County location where she works — management had come in to look at how everything was running, and there were a lot of people moving around."},{"_id":"QOJPECLBJFBGBKQLQMNM3APZGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1720212478233},"type":"text","content":"But she stayed focused on making biscuits, and got her job done."},{"_id":"SYNJLTHRXVF6FMDA62C4PVJZFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1720212478234},"type":"text","content":"Christensen has learned a lot working both in the community, and in jobs where she felt she was more hidden away, she said. She has a passion for food, and wants to become a chef. 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