HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man faced scheduled execution Tuesday evening, 13 years to the day of a convenience store robbery in which he set an elderly clerk on fire.

Texas executed a 49-year-old death row inmate for the gruesome murder of a grandmother during a robbery in 2012, making him the second person to be executed in the United States on Tuesday and the 18th person this year.

A Texas man was executed Tuesday evening for the burning death of an elderly clerk he set on fire during a convenience store robbery more than a decade ago. Matthew Lee Johnson was condemned for the 2012 death of 76-year-old Nancy Harris,

A Texas man asked for forgiveness before he was executed on Tuesday for the murder of a grandmother who he set on fire during a robbery 13 years ago. Matthew Lee Johnson, 49, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.

Matthew Johnson, who testified he did not intend to kill the elderly clerk, received the death penalty in 2013. The execution could be Texas’ fourth and last for 2025.

Texas on Tuesday executed Matthew Johnson, a Dallas County man who admitted to killing a 76-year-old convenience store clerk by dousing her with lighter