Texas executed Matthew Johnson on May 20, 2025, 13 years to the day after he walked into a Garland convenience store with a bottle of lighter fluid, robbed a 76-year-old clerk and set her ablaze.

Matthew Johnson is set to be executed in Huntsville on Tuesday for killing Nancy Harris, a 76-year-old Garland convenience store clerk, in 2012. (Maria Crane/The Texas Tribune, Maria Crane/The ...

The next execution scheduled in the U.S. is set to take place on Thursday. Tennessee plans to execute Oscar Smith , more than two years after Smith's execution was abruptly halted.

The Supreme Court previously heard another Texas death row inmate’s case in February, as Ruben Gutierrez seeks to be able to sue prosecutors to test DNA on evidence he says will prove his innocence.

Death row inmate Matthew Johnson is scheduled to be executed Tuesday evening for killing a woman he set on fire during a robbery in 2012 in what will be Texas’ fourth execution this year.

Texas currently only has one other execution scheduled. Matthew Johnson, whose execution is set for May 20, was convicted of killing a Garland convenience store employee by setting them on fire.

Matthew Johnson is set to be executed in Huntsville on Tuesday for killing Nancy Harris, a 76-year-old Garland convenience store clerk, in 2012. (Maria Crane/The Texas Tribune, Maria Crane/The ...

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