JOHN WESLEY HARDIN

On this date back in 1894 gunslinger and killer John Wesley Hardin was pardoned after spending 15 years in a Texas prison for murder.  He was 41 years old when he got out.

 Although he supposedly killed over 40 people prior to this, he tried to change his life by becoming a lawyer in El Paso.  That didn’t last long since he was shot in the back about a year later.