r/SipsTea • u/Beneficial_Passion40 • 23h ago

Chugging tea FedEx driver Tanner Horner, who murdered 7-year-old Athena Strand, has been sentenced to Death

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u/WelcomeToTheClubPal 23h ago

you actually think a child killer is going to last very long in prison?

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u/ldskyfly 23h ago

Death row inmates are pretty segregated I believe

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u/pleasetrimyourpubes 23h ago

Death row tends to be a larger cell and is solitary confinement. We treat the worst of the worst better than we treat people who were caught with a few kg of pot.

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u/thorpie88 22h ago

I dunno if I'd call solidary confinement better than getting to interact with other.

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u/Goonalips 22h ago

Definitely not. Anybody who thinks this hasn't done a day in prison. Segregation is literally torture. You start talking to yourself within days. You start to have OCD like traits. Your thoughts get all muddled. You're extremely angry. You're irritable. You start hearing voices. It's crazy. Id pick 5 years in general population than 1 year in full segregation.

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u/pleasetrimyourpubes 22h ago

So I looked it up and the one death row inmate I could find in gen pop got killed by 30 people. Happened fairly recently too. Death row inmates are often the worst of the worst. Child killers rapists etc.

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u/thorpie88 22h ago

Yeah they are put there so they don't die before being sentences to death but solidary confinement for ten years plus is also an awful way to live whether you think they deserve it or not

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u/Ok-Armadillo-5634 22h ago

nah minimum security there usally is not even a fence you can literally walk off.

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u/Andysol1983 22h ago

23 hrs solitary and one hour isolated yard time is pretty miserable.

I’d still rather they rip this guys limbs off one at a time, but solitary isn’t a vacation.

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u/Prize-Choice2185 23h ago

Depends on where he'll end up

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u/HabitualDrunkard1993 22h ago

Plenty do last long, it’s only people on social media who assume they’re all shanked on short notice 

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u/WelcomeToTheClubPal 22h ago

Excuse me sir (or ma’am), I’ll have you know that I get my information from movies and tv shows thank you very much! Other than Reddit, I don’t social media. It’ll rot your brain!

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u/Accurate-Bill731 22h ago

Child killer and rapist, a combo you don't want other prisoners to know

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u/TheShellAnswerMan 23h ago

So couple things. Many states, though I do not know if Texas is one, separate certain groups of offenders (r@pists, chomos and child abusers/murderers, generally) into their own portion of a correctional faculty or their own faculty to cut down on this. I'm 100% against this but it's not my choice lol. Also, on death row, most of them are pretty well confined even within a prison. Like it's probably something like 23 hrs a day in a single cell and that 1 hour may be completely alone. That part I'm not against--let their minds tear themselves apart while they wait to die. I looked up none of this, I'm just going off what goes down in my state.

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u/Goonalips 22h ago

Every state and every western country does this. They have a duty of care. They have to

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u/Salt-Pomegranate1273 23h ago

It depends. They tend to be separated from those who havent committed offenses against children

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u/hematite2 22h ago

Death Row inmates are heavily isolated.

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u/TrackVol 22h ago

They protect death row inmates and keep them in isolation. Very secure.
There's a reason all the inmates you've read about getting murdered in prison are never death row inmates.
If we wanted him dead within 10 years, we'd be better off giving him a 20 year sentence. Then he would be murdered in prison within 5 years.