East Texas man set to die Thursday for killing 93-year-old woman during robbery 10 years ago
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A death-row inmate convicted of fatally beating and stabbing a 93-year-old woman during a robbery at her Texas home is facing execution without any last-minute court appeals.
Clifton Lamar Williams is set to die Thursday evening for the 2005 slaying of Cecelia Schneider in Tyler.
Firefighters responding to a call about smoke coming from her house found her body. Investigators determined her body and bed had been set on fire after she'd been killed.
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Prosecutors allege Williams broke into her home to get money for cocaine. He was arrested a week after the killing, after investigators found his blood and fingerprints in the woman's car, which had been found wrecked and abandoned.
If the execution is carried out, the 31-year-old Williams would be the 10th Texas prisoner executed this year.