BREAKING: FedEx driver who pleaded guilty to kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Athena Strand, has been sentenced to death.
Tanner Horner snatched Athena while he was delivering a Barbie doll to her home in Paradise, Texas.
At one point during the trial, jurors broke down in tears while hearing audio of Horner killing Athena after he told her to take off her shirt and said she was “really pretty.”
Athena repeatedly asked for her mother before she was killed.
“Horner is then heard asking Athena to remove her shirt, and there are several moments when she says “no” and asks for her mom. That was followed by repeated sounds of crying, screaming and banging,” NBC reported last month.
Following three hours of deliberation today, Horner was sentenced to death by lethal injection.
