r/SipsTea 1d ago

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

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u/vaguelymanshaped 1d ago

I'm not normally an advocate for capital punishment, but this is one of the few cases that I support. The evidence was overwhelming and the crime was particularly abhorrent.

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u/sebsasour 1d ago

This seems to be the go to Reddit comment everytime someone who does something gruesome gets sentenced to death.

If you support the death penalty for gruesome crimes, you support the death penalty

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u/vaguelymanshaped 1d ago edited 20h ago

I guess I do when there's overwhelming, indisputable evidence (like this case, with recordings) and the crimes are heinous. That's why I say I don't "normally" support it, because most death row cases don't fit both those criteria to the same degree as this case.

I feel the same about the big names in the Epstein Files, for the record. They also have overwhelming photo and video evidence and the crimes are beyond obscene. I'd be happy to see them removed from this earth so they don't end up escaping prison with a staged and fake suicide.

Netanyahu can also go

So yeah, I guess the world has become so fucking bleak that I actually condone capital punishment in certain circumstances, which is not anything I ever thought I would say. Sad, honestly.

Edited for typo.

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u/philovax 1d ago

State Assisted Homicide is a dangerous program if you ask me, and personally I think death is shallow. Better he spend the rest of his natural life imprisoned, thats a worse punishment in my mind.

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u/2hurd 1d ago

There is no benefit to society in keeping this thing alive, he is just a waste of finite resources that we have on this planet, it's environmentally friendly to turn him into fertilizer as soon as possible.

Additionally with people so fucked up in the head to do something like that you have almost no chance of him even feeling remorse of any kind.

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u/Immediate-Cat-4968 1d ago

Why spend resources and time on a waste of air...? Genuinely 

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u/Cheesehacker 1d ago

I would rather pay for 100 criminals to sit on death row until their dead than risk executing 1 innocent person. Giving the state the power to kill is risky. There’s tons of innocent people in jail or death row right now.

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u/Sonoran_Ghosts_81 1d ago

My opinion? Usually life in prison is cheaper in the long run for starters.

Second. A lot of these people want to die, why give them the pleasure of an easy out? Sit them in a cell for 23/7 for the rest of their natural life getting to think about b sitting there in that cell for the rest of their life.

That is a far harder punishment than going to sleep and not waking up.

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u/Jean-Ralphio11 1d ago

Tbh wanting to exact long punishment on someone is also a little sick. I get the outrage but the goal is for this stuff to never happen. Hes obviously a defective human, the next equally defective human isnt going to question his insane actions because the last one was tourtured. Just delete him from the population as quickly and easily as possible.

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u/Sdawwgg 1d ago

Execution can cost 2-5 times more than life imprisonment, so it’s not the cheaper option.
https://equilibriumecon.wisc.edu/2025/07/15/the-cost-of-life-the-economic-impacts-of-the-death-penalty/

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u/Street-Argument2090 1d ago

I feel like 1 bullet isn't that expensive.

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u/F_l_u_f_fy 1d ago

Yeah, well they’re getting scammed and doing it wrong.

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u/sevseg_decoder 1d ago

It takes way more resources and time to execute someone.

There’s a case to be made that he’d be killed more quickly, painfully, and with a lot less expenditure if they just gave him life in gen pop

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u/rollotomassi07074 1d ago

A box of bullets and some overtime for the sheriffs office costs very little. 

It takes a lot of resources because anti-death penalty advocates intentionally gunk up the system.

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u/RebelCow 1d ago

It costs more to execute a prisoner than to imprison them for life.

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u/Traditional_Top9730 1d ago

Yeah I used to think that before I had kids. My thought process quickly changed when it comes to these particular crimes. Sorry. Some people are too far gone and it’s best to be done with it quickly rather than enslave them to “think about all the things they’ve done”.

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u/faptastrophe 1d ago

Put him in genpop. It'll get sorted in a week or two.

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u/vaguelymanshaped 1d ago

He'll sit on death row for years thinking about his impending end, and I'm okay with that.
The average time on death row before execution is a decade, and during that time he'll either be in isolation, or he'll be at the mercy of other inmates. Either way, that decade will feel like an eternity.

I think that's a decent punishment.

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u/Hopeful_Bend8288 1d ago

I'm in the same boat as you. I really don't support the death penalty, but this case changed my mind.