Matthew Johnson, 49, was executed by lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville and pronounced dead at 6:53 pm local time (2353 GMT).
He admitted at trial to pouring lighter fluid on Harris and setting her alight during an early morning robbery of a store in Garland, Texas.
In his final statement, Johnson thanked God and asked for forgiveness from the victim’s family, saying “I never meant to hurt her.”
“Just know that it’s nothing that y’all did,“ he said to his family. “I made wrong choices, I’ve made wrong decisions, and now I pay the consequences.”
Benjamin Ritchie, 45, was put to death by lethal injection overnight at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City for the 2000 murder of officer Bill Toney, the Indiana Department of Correction said in a statement.
The other execution scheduled this week is in the southern state of Tennessee.
There have been 18 executions in the United States this year: 14 by lethal injection, two by firing squad and two using nitrogen gas.
President Donald Trump is a proponent of capital punishment and called on his first day in office for an expansion of its use “for the vilest crimes.”
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