Texas Man has set fire to fire exactly 13 years after the use of Convenience Store Clerk

A Texan man was executed on Tuesday evening because of the burning death of an older employee, whom he set fire to a supermarket more than a decade ago during a robbery.

Matthew Lee Johnson was condemned for the 2012 death From 76-year-old Nancy Harris, a great-grandmother who was sprayed with lighter liquid and put it on fire in a shop in garland.

The 49 -year -old Johnson received a fatal injection after 6 p.m. in the state prison in Huntsville.

Benjamin Ritchie should receive a fatal injection for the murder of a police officer in 2000.

These two executions are part of a group of four times that are planned within a week. On May 15, Glen Rogers was executed in Florida. Oscar Smith will receive a fatal injection in Tennessee on Thursday.

David Dow, one of Johnson's lawyers, said that he would not enter into the Supreme Court in the United States to stop the execution. The courts of the lower appeals had previously rejected applications from Johnson's lawyers to keep his execution. The Texas Board of Pardons and slogans asked Johnson on Friday to transform his death sentence into a lower punishment.

In previous appointments, Johnson's lawyers had argued that his death sentence was unconstitutional because he was not properly decided as a future danger to society, a legal statement that was necessary to condemn it to death. His recent vocations had argued that his execution date was illegally planned.

Security video recorded part of the attack against Harris.

She was badly burned and was able to describe the suspect before she died a few days after the attack on May 20, 2012. Johnson's execution is scheduled to take place 13 years until the day was attacked.

Johnson's guilt has never been in doubt. In his 2013 trial, he admitted to set Harris on fire. He expressed remorse and called himself “the lowest foam of the earth”.

“I hurt an innocent woman. I took a person's life. I was the reason for it. It wasn't my intention to kill her or hurt her, but I did it,” said Johnson.

Johnson said he hadn't aware of what he had done when he was high afterwards Smoking $ 100 Riss. His lawyers told the jurors that Johnson had a long history of drug addiction and had been sexually abused as a child.

In court documents, the General Prosecutor's office announced in Texas that Johnson's various vocals were efforts to delay a legal death sentence.

“Thirteen years after the Commission of Johnson's crime, justice should no longer be denied,” said the AG's office in a court application submitted last week.

Harris had worked in Convenience Store for more than 10 years and, according to her son Scot Harris, lived only about one and a half blocks away. She had four sons, 11 grandchildren and seven great -grandchildren.

The public prosecutor said that Harris had only worked on her Sunday morning when Johnson came in for a short time, shot lighter liquid over her head and demanded money.

After Johnson grabbed the money from the register, he set fire to Harris and, according to court documents, left out of business. Harris desperately tried to extinguish herself and her clothes, left the shop and screamed for help before a policeman used a fire extinguisher to pour the flames over covering her body. Johnson was arrested about an hour later.

Harris suffered extensive burns of second and third degrees over the head and face, neck, shoulders, upper arms and legs and had great pain in the days before she died, a nurse and a doctor.

If the execution is carried out, Johnson would be the fourth person will be killed in Texas this yearHistorically, the most busiest death penalty in the nation. If both executions take place on Tuesday, this year would bring this year's total number of death sentences nationwide.