A Texas man was executed on Tuesday evening for the fatal burning of an elderly clerk, whom he ignited during a convenience store robbery over ten years ago.
Matthew Lee Johnson was sentenced to death for the 2012 murder of 76-year-old Nancy Harris, a great-grandmother who was doused with lighter fluid and set on fire at a store in Garland.
At the age of 49, Johnson received a lethal injection after 6 p.m. at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.
His execution was one of two scheduled for Tuesday in the United States. In Indiana, Benjamin Ritchie was also set to receive a lethal injection for the 2000 murder of a police officer.