Utah prison officials are abandoning the plan to use an untested drug combo in an upcoming execution. Here’s what they want to use instead.

Taberon Honie is scheduled to be executed on Aug. 8. Utah officials initially said they would kill him with the never-before-used drug combination of ketamine, fentanyl and potassium chloride.

(Fox13) Taberon Honie enters a Fifth District courtroom in Cedar City, Monday, June 10, 2024. A judge signed an execution warrant for Honie, scheduling an execution for Aug. 8, 2024. Honie was sentenced in 1999 for the murder of the mother of his ex-girlfriend.