DALLAS (AP) — A former FedEx driver has been sentenced to death after he pleaded guilty to killing a 7-year-old girl he took from her Texas home while delivering a Christmas gift.

Jurors decided Tuesday on the sentence for 34-year-old Tanner Horner.

He had pleaded guilty to capital murder just as his trial began in Fort Worth in the 2022 killing of Athena Strand. Her body was found two days after she was reported missing in the rural town of Paradise, near Fort Worth.

Horner’s attorney had asked jurors to sentence Horner to life in prison and said Horner suffered from “mental illnesses.”