Former FedEx driver Tanner Horner has pleaded guilty to kidnapping and killing 7-year-old North Texas girl Athena Strand in 2022. Now, with the death penalty a possibility, the trial continues its sentencing phase with the defense's case. Horner's attorneys have argued that his Autism Spectrum Disorder "reduces his moral blameworthiness, negates the retributive and deterrent purposes of capital punishment and exposes him to the unacceptable risk that he will be wrongfully sentenced to death."