General · 6 May 2026
FedEx driver Tanner Horner gets death sentence
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A Texas jury decided a FedEx driver will be executed for kidnapping and murdering a young girl. Tanner Horner, 34, abducted seven-year-old Athena Strand in November 2022 while delivering packages to her Paradise home. He pleaded guilty to capital murder on April 7; her body was found two days later, seven miles away.
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