- The Utah Board of Pardons denied parole for Andy Vigil, 54, this week.
- Vigil, convicted of murdering his mother in 1990, will remain imprisoned until at least 2027.
SALT LAKE CITY — A man who at one time faced a possible death sentence for killing his mother will remain in the Utah State Prison for at least another two years.
This week, the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole denied 54-year-old Andy Leon Vigil’s request for parole. But the board did grant him another hearing sometime in 2027.
On Sept. 2, 1990, Vigil sexually assaulted a 4-year-old girl his mother was babysitting in Salt Lake City and then killed his mother by hitting her with a baseball bat as she lay in bed…