Posted on 05/08/2026 3:54:54 PM PDT by Libloather
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, an infamously restrictive prison outside Houston where the state’s death row inmates are housed in an all-solitary confinement wing and spend at least 22 hours a day in their 60-square-foot cells.
The former FedEx deliveryman, 34, was booked at the notorious prison Tuesday within hours of being sentenced for the gruesome murder of Athena Strand, 7, whom he admitted strangling while delivering a Christmas gift to her home in November 2022.
Horner will remain at the prison until he dies by lethal injection — which could be anywhere from years to decades from now, depending on how long he fights on appeal.
The case was automatically appealed after his sentence was handed down — based on Texas’ standard capital punishment laws — guaranteeing him at least a short stay in his cozy new crib.
But Horner could have decades ahead of him if he chooses to push his appeal and finds grounds to do so.
The Polunsky Unit has death row inmates who have been sitting there for nearly 50 years, with the longest awaiting their execution since being condemned in 1977.
Most are dispatched far more quickly, however, with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice listing the average stay on death row at just over 11 years.
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I like what Dean Martin said in ROUGH NIGHT IN JERICHO(1967)
“Lock him up. We’ll hang him tomorrow right after the trial.”
Every cell should have a noose hanging from the ceiling.
“Why is the state of Texas coddling this scumbag? The cells are 60 square feet? Alcatraz cells were 5’ by 9’ “
60sqft is 6’x10’ that’s only one foot longer and wider than Alcatraz. If you have ever been in a solitary cell the one foot makes zero difference. There is no window it’s a grate with holes in it and a slot for food to be passed through. The Huntsville unit that this place is located at is notorious for its high heat and humidity levels it is deep east Texas summer after all. Only the infirmary has climate control. It’s brutal in summer. My second wife was a behavioral analysts with the alphabet boys she had/has case studies and analysis about death row inmates. Spent much time there she was like how do you sleep or cope with heat indexes of 120F plus inside closes cells 22hrs a day. I shrugged my shoulders and said same we us troops dealt with 130+F in the crappy parts of the world. Stay hydrated and suck it up.
That’s huge 60 sq ft
And 22 hours a day is standard USP control mode
Usually two sweethearts in 40 sq ft
Hope they got bars
Mo’ scenic
He’s in administrative segregation- no cellmate, no contact with other prisoners. His “yard time” will be in a solitary chain link cage. So, highly unlikely.
CC
USP Atlanta back when it was genuine max level Five
Only Lewisburg
Lompoc
Leavenworth
Terre haute
Marion
McNeil island was closed
El Reno 1890 reformatory was disbursement unit
None had AC
All old school 1899-1920s
Man fifth tier Atlanta was a boiler
Great for turning buck fast
DADE COUNTY STOCKADE WAS COOL HAND LUKE
Id wage Dixie’s finest cages are indeed the hottest
Huntsville has been one very bad place to build time in
You have to have legal consequence and defense otherwise might does what it wants
If everyone dueled like Andy Jackson or some French fop with an epeé
Bullies would rule culture
I would imagine some car string in Texas especially a white one has an “on sight “. Ticket on him
May ABT?
They used to have huge numbers
And along comes boo-hoo liberal lawyers to appeal for this guy ... we should have the names of those lawyers
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The reason lawyers were neck ties is to keep the forskin from coming up over their heads.
“one of the most brutal death row prisons”
It’s not brutal. Watch the Wer er Jerzog documentaries about it. It is a quiet boring prison. They don’t brutalize the inmates.
I wonder if it’s just coincidence that in one week a judge apologizes to a guy who tried to kill the president about his jail conditions, and then the New York Post runs a story about the jail conditions of a child murderer.
With the speedier execution policies in many sound states, it may be less than a decade until he’s sent to the gurney for pentobarbitol.
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