Tanner Horner receives death sentence for kidnapping and killing Athena Strand

9 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 8

A Texas jury sentenced Horner over the 2022 abduction and murder of seven-year-old Athena Strand during a FedEx delivery route.
The case drew national attention because Horner had pleaded guilty, leaving jurors to decide whether he should be executed or imprisoned for life.
Athena’s killing devastated her family and community, and the sentence closes the penalty phase in one of Texas’s most closely watched child-murder cases.

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