“HE SANG CHRISTMAS CAROLS WHILE KILLING A 7-YEAR-OLD… NOW HE’S ENTERING A PRISON MANY CALL ‘A LIVING HELL.’” Child killer Tanner Horner has officially been sent to Texas’ most feared death row prison — the notorious Polunsky Unit — where inmates spend nearly every hour alone inside tiny concrete cells under nonstop surveillance. The former FedEx driver showed no emotion after being sentenced to death for the horrifying murder of little Athena Strand, 7, a crime so disturbing it shocked the entire country. Now, the man who abducted and strangled a child during a Christmas delivery could spend decades trapped in total isolation before ever facing execution — in conditions critics describe as “psychological torture.”
Tanner Horner will reside in notorious Texas prison after death sentence for murdering 7-year-old Athena Strand: ‘A form of torture’ Convicted child killer Tanner Horner will take up residence in one of the most brutal death row prisons after being sentenced to die by a Texas jury this week. Horner will rot away at the Polunsky Unit, … Read more