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🎤 Tanner Horner, 34, entered a guilty plea on April 7 to capital murder of a child under 10 and aggravated kidnapping. On May 5, a Fort Worth jury imposed a death sentence following deliberations lasting under three hours.⚖️ Jurors were asked whether he would remain a danger and whether anything from his life weighed against the death penalty. They answered yes to the first question and no to the second.📍 Athena Strand was taken from her driveway in Paradise, Texas, on November 30, 2022, minutes after Horner delivered a package there. Her body was found two days afterward, approximately nine miles away. Horner said he hit her with his van and panicked; the district attorney said that account was a lie.⏳ The sentence is automatically sent to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. No execution date has been established. In Texas, the wait from sentencing to execution typically extends well beyond a decade. His lawyers had requested life without parole, referring to his autism diagnosis and upbringing.📰 Sources: NBC News, CBS Texas, Fort Worth Report, Wise County Messenger