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Ex-Ind. prison guard sentenced for killing wife

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A former prison guard has been sentenced to 64 years in prison for killing his estranged wife after she brought their children to his central Indiana home to catch a school bus.

A Delaware County judge ordered the sentence Thursday, saying 37-year-old Benjamin Hankins of Gaston showed a cold indifference to his wife's suffering by waiting several minutes to call authorities after shooting her three times.

A jury in April convicted Hankins of murder for the June 2011 shooting of 32-year-old Lisa Hankins.

The Star Press reports Hankins spoke only briefly during Thursday's hearing to say he intended to appeal. Hankins last month gave a rambling 49-minute statement, maintaining he was a police conspiracy victim.

Hankins was a Gaston police reserve officer and worked at the Pendleton Correctional Facility.

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