Leftist Influencer’s Mangione Celebration Resurfaces After He Opposes Death Penalty for Child Murderer
The passage describes the Texas death-penalty sentencing of former FedEx driver Tanner Horner for the abduction and killing of 7-year-old Athena Strand. It claims Horner lied at first,but later admitted to the abuse and that Athena died from blunt force trauma,smothering,and strangulation.
It then argues that some left-leaning social media users who oppose the death penalty were challenged to explain why Horner shouldn’t be executed, including an influencer who initially demanded life and framed it as consistent with anti-death-penalty views. That stance is portrayed as short-lived after people pointed out an earlier post from the same account that appeared to celebrate (or praise) the accused killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO luigi mangione. The article uses this contrast to argue that the influencer-and the broader “modern left” according to the author-opposes execution selectively, criticizing them as hypocritical about human life and consequences for violence.
The left found another homicidal monster they collectively think deserves compassion: a lunatic who kidnapped, tortured, and murdered a 7-year-old girl.
This week, a Texas jury sentenced former FedEx driver Tanner Horner to death for the murder of Athena Strand. The facts of the case are so demonic that even reading them is nauseating.
Horner abducted Athena after delivering a package containing Barbie dolls to her family’s rural Texas home in 2022.
Investigators said Horner initially lied and claimed he accidentally struck the little girl with his vehicle, USA Today reported.
The medical examiner testified that Athena died from blunt force trauma, smothering, and strangulation, which Horner eventually admitted.
That is the monster a large chunk of the American left suddenly wants to be treated with the utmost humanity.
After conservative commentator Matt Walsh on Tuesday challenged death penalty opponents to explain why Horner should not be executed, one far-left influencer eagerly answered the call.
I am challenging any death penalty opponent — there are millions of them, allegedly — to step up to the plate right now and explain why this guy should not be executed. His guilt is established beyond any doubt whatsoever. His crime is utterly savage and heinous. Tell us why he… https://t.co/m8nlRZsmCF
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) May 5, 2026
The X account “evan loves worf,” which has more than 160,000 followers, rushed to demand life for a child killer.
“He deserves to die but killing people is wrong,” the account posted. “The point of being against the death penalty is for when the person deserves it.”
He *deserves* to die but killing people is wrong. It’s that simple. The point of being against the death penalty is for when the person deserves it. It’s easy to be against it for when someone doesn’t deserve it. pic.twitter.com/vd9sgpu3QZ
— evan loves worf (@esjesjesj) May 6, 2026
What touching moral consistency!
Except it lasted about five minutes.
People quickly uncovered an older post from last January in which the same account appeared to celebrate the accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer, Luigi Mangione.
“Happy new year specifically to Luigi Mangione,” the influencer wrote.
Dude is just getting flooded with this screenshot and “this you?” in the replies hahahaha https://t.co/3wnaDTqBBX pic.twitter.com/QZrDDTgIR0
— Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) May 6, 2026
The modern left’s oh-so-virtuous stand on the sanctity of human life collapsed with two social media posts.
Execution for a child murderer is supposedly barbaric. But celebrating an alleged political assassination is edgy, righteous, and cool.
These people do not oppose killing. They oppose consequences for the kinds of criminals they have a bizarre fixation with.
The left’s entire moral framework on the issue of life revolves around disguising their depravity as compassion.
They routinely find sympathy for murderers, rapists, gang members, child predators, and foreign dictators, while reserving their actual hatred for normal Americans.
That is true even when you leave abortion out of the conversation.
The modern Democratic Party is a death cult that celebrates assassinations and those who attempt political killings, butchers the unborn, and weeps for people who do not deserve to draw air.
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