A 43-year-old man who fatally shot a Dallas police officer nearly 16 years ago is set to be executed in today amid an ongoing legal battle over the state's use of expired legal injection drugs. Wesley Ruiz has been on death row since 2008, after gunning down Dallas Police Senior Corporal Mark Nix, a former US Navy veteran of Operation Desert Storm, the previous year.Ruiz had led Nix on a high-speed car chase through the streets of Dallas, before sliding off the road and shooting the officer in the chest
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