Texas man to be executed for setting Garland convenience store clerk on fire in 2012

A Texas man is set to be 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 great-grandmother who was splashed with lighter fluid and set ablaze at a store in Garland.

Johnson, 49, was scheduled to receive a lethal injection after 6 p.m. at the state penitentiary in Huntsville…

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