Man who killed a woman, set her on fire

A Texan inmate that set fire to a great -grandmother during a robbery of a supermarket business was executed on Tuesday, May 20, in the state prison in Huntsville by fatal injection.

The 49-year-old Matthew Lee Johnson spoke some of his last words to relatives of 76-year-old Nancy Harris, exactly 13 years after death after killing her.

“When I look at each of you, I can see them that day,” he said according to Associated Press. “I ask for your forgiveness. I never wanted to hurt her.”

“I pray that she is the first person I see when I open my eyes and with whom I spend eternity,” he added according to AP. “I made false decisions, I have made false decisions and now I'm paying the consequences.”

Johnson was declared dead at 6:53 p.m. CDT, reported AP.

Johnson robbed the convenience store in Garland, where Harris worked on a morning shift on May 20, 2012. During the robbery, Johnson Harris stole with lighter liquid, steel cash from the cash register and its rings, two packs of cigarettes and a lighter before she set them on fire.

According to the Texas Observer, he grabbed candy bars before fled out of the scene.

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Harris tried to extinguish himself in a sink in the shop and then ran to the outside to help help, reported USA tono, citing court documents.

Harris, who was taken to the hospital after four days later in the hospital, where she died five days later, where she died five days later.

Johnson, who claimed that at the time of the murders he had a high crack, admitted to having murdered Harris from 2013: “I injured an innocent woman. I took a person's life.

He was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death.