Supreme Court deny review of Dustin Honken’s death sentences

The U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition Monday to review a Britt man's convictions and death sentences for five drug-related murders in 1993, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Dustin Honken, 46, was convicted by a federal jury on Oct. 14, 2004 of five counts of murdering witnesses, one count of soliciting murder of additional witnesses, one count of conspiring to murder witnesses, five counts of murder in furtherance of a drug conspiracy and five counts of murder in furtherance of a continuing criminal enterprise.

The jury sentenced Honken to death on four of the counts involving the premediated murder of two young girls, Kandi Duncan, 10, and Amber Duncan, 6.

Honken will have one year to file a petition for post conviction relief. He won't be scheduled for execution until he exhausts all his appeals.