Texas man executed for setting convenience store clerk on fire in 2012
Matthew Lee Johnson, 49, received a lethal injection after 6 p.m. at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.
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Matthew Lee Johnson, 49, received a lethal injection after 6 p.m. at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.
A Texas man is facing execution for the burning death of an elderly clerk he set ablaze during a store robbery more than a decade ago.
Earlier Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request by his attorneys to stop the execution.
Moises Sandoval Mendoza is set to die by lethal injection Wednesday night if the U.S. Supreme Court does not stay the execution.
The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 in one of the the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history has been offered a plea deal to avoid the death penalty.
Wendell Grissom received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and was pronounced dead at 10:13 a.m.
The court put David Leonard Wood's execution on pause "until further order."
Texas has executed a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club.
Arizona has set an execution date for a convicted killer on death row, marking the state's return to the death penalty after more than a decade of issues.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry announced the state will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, potentially using the experimental method nitrogen hypoxia.
His execution was the nation's fourth using nitrogen gas.
Steven Nelson, 37, was sentenced to death in 2012, a year after he was found guilty of fatally beating and suffocating NorthPointe Baptist Church pastor Clint Dobson.
Steven Nelson, convicted in the killing of an Arlington priest in 2011, is set to be executed on Wednesday.
Kevin Underwood, who killed 10-year-old Jamie Rose Rolin in 2006, died by lethal injection in Oklahoma. It was the 25th and final U.S. execution this year.
An Indiana man, Joseph Corcoran, convicted of killing four people including his brother and his sister's fiancé decades ago was put to death, without any independent witness, marking the state's first execution in 15 years.
An Alabama prisoner convicted of the 1994 murder of a female hitchhiker became the third person executed by nitrogen gas in both the U.S. and Alabama.
"It's very similar. In fact, an identical witness was involved in both cases," said State Representative Joe Moody.
In the texts, Leach reportedly asked the judge to reconsider Roberson's case, whose execution has now been postponed.
The stay came mere hours before Robert Roberson was poised to become the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction linked to shaken baby syndrome.
A man whose execution was halted will testify Monday about Texas' "junk science" law, which many say should have already saved him.
Just four days ago, Roberson was minutes away from being executed while a flurry of legal motions and appeals ended with the Texas Supreme Court issuing a stay. On Monday, he's set to testify to a state committee.
The Texas Supreme Court halted the scheduled execution of Robert Roberson late Thursday night, hours before he was poised to become the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction linked to shaken baby syndrome.
Robertson's lawyers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay his execution.
A man is set to be executed in Texas Thursday night. Here's a timeline of procedures that lead up to an execution.
Robert Roberson is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Thursday for the 2002 killing of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis.
