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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His behavior is highly indicative of having committed similar crimes in the past. You just don’t “strangle a child in a panic” on the first mistake. This was build into his psyche.
They will fry him....around the year 2050.
I hope he gets sodomized in a bathroom stall while drowning head down in a toilet full of crap.
His behavior is highly indicative of having committed similar crimes in the past.
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He took Prozac. It might have been a side effect from withdrawing.
Give him to the make family members of the victim for two hours.
And turn your backs.
Bastard should be dragged behind a pickup truck by his neck over a gravel road.
How long before this guy slips on a bar of soap and drowns in a toilet bowl?
And along comes boo-hoo liberal lawyers to appeal for this guy ... we should have the names of those lawyers ....
Right - take Prozac and kill a kid during withdrawal.
THIS IS WHEN I HATE DEFENSE LAWYERS
Everybody is entitled to a defense, however, atty’s who value their reputations should choose wisely. Yes, there are sharks out there just going for the gov’t payout.
Think about being O.J. Simpson’s pro bono lawyer.
Not in Texas
They don’t drag it out for years
They are in solitary..............
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Based on reports as of early 2026, the average stay on death row in Texas before execution is just over 11 years.
The guy they just executed was convicted in 2008.
At least 11 years of 3 hots and a cot on the taxpayer’s dime? And he’ll get to live 4 or more years than his victim did?
We need to shake this system up, it’s so unfair to victims. It only caters to the murderers.
ALL KILLERS SHOULD BE IN THIS PRISON!!
Defense lawyers are just doing it for the money. They couldn’t care less that guys like this are guilty as hell. The taxpayer has to pay for these greedy bastard lawyers as well as everything else.
Why is the state of Texas coddling this scumbag? The cells are 60 square feet? Alcatraz cells were 5’ by 9’ and they were good enough for the likes of this murderous chomo.
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