Earl Gardner (murderer)

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Earl Gardner (August 2, 1906 – July 13, 1936) was a Native American serial killer who killed three people, including his wife and infant son, on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona between 1925 and 1935. Gardner served time in prison for killing a man in a fight in 1925. After his release, Gardner, who had a history of abusing his wife, murdered her and their son with an axe in 1935. He was sentenced to death for these murders and hanged in 1936. Gardner's execution was botched, resulting in it taking over 30 minutes for him to die. Months later, Congress passed a law stating that all federal executions would now be carried out using whatever method was used in the state. This made Gardner the last person to be executed by hanging in Arizona.

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