Tanner Horner, the man who admitted he brutally murdered seven-year-old Athena Strand in Paradise, Texas, has been sentenced to death.
The jury’s sentence came after “less than three” hours of deliberation on Tuesday, Fox 4 reported. The jury said he is a threat to society even while he is behind bars, and there were “no mitigating circumstances to warrant the sentence of life in prison without parole rather than the death sentence,” the outlet continued.
Following the girl’s killing in late 2022, Wise County Sheriff Lane Akin said authorities would recommend the death penalty for Horner, who was a FedEx driver at the time he murdered her.
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Horner later admitted to murdering the child and said he “tossed” her body when he disposed of it. He pleaded guilty to capital murder and aggravated kidnapping after initially claiming he accidentally hit the child with his delivery truck when he was delivering a package to
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