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Texas inmate with a history of violence against women is set to be executed Wednesday evening for fatally
shooting his wife, who had feared she would never get out of her marriage alive.
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John Gardner, 64, is facing lethal injection for the January 2005 slaying of Tammy Gardner.
Prosecutors said the couple was getting divorced when Gardner broke into his wife’s North Texas home and shot her in the head as she was sitting in bed.