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Former FedEx Driver Gets a Death Sentence

DALLAS (AP) — A former FedEx driver has been sentenced to death after he pleaded guilty to killing a 7-year-old girl he took from her Texas home while delivering a Christmas gift. Jurors decided Tuesday on the sentence for 34-year-old Tanner Horner. He had pleaded guilty to capital murder just as his trial began in Fort Worth in the 2022 killing of Athena Strand. Her body was found two days after she was reported missing in the rural town of Par…

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Tanner Horner is sentenced to death in Texas for the murder of a seven-year-old girl, in a case that revives the debate on capital punishment

Recognised guilty of strangling a girl he had abducted, a thirty-year-old was sentenced to capital punishment. Justice decided by taking the life of...

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