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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Juan A. Lozano and Michael Graczyk

Texas man facing execution, 13 years to the day of a store robbery in which he set clerk ablaze

Texas Execution - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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.

Matthew Lee Johnson was condemned for the deadly May 20, 2012, attack on 76-year-old Nancy Harris, a great-grandmother who was splashed with lighter fluid and set ablaze at a store in Garland, a northeast suburb of Dallas. Badly burned, she died days afterward.

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