On Tuesday, a Texas jury sentenced a FedEx driver who kidnapped, raped and murdered a little girl to death by lethal injection.
It’s a decision that jurors usually agonize over for many hours, sometimes days.
But not this jury.
It took jurors under three hours to condemn Tanner Horner, 34, to death for a case that horrified the nation.
I sat just a few feet away from Horner in the Fort Worth courtroom, where the most heinous details played out over a four-week trial.
Horner, a new father and fiancé at the time, was delivering packages in rural Paradise, a town of fewer than 500
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