Tyler Man’s Execution Set for July
Posted/updated on: June 5, 2015 at 9:05 pm
TYLER — A Tyler man’s execution for the 2005 murder of an elderly women has been scheduled. According to KETK, Judge Christi Kennedy’s office says Clifton Lamar Williams, 31, will be put to death by lethal injection July 16 in Huntsville. The then 23-year-old Williams was convicted of strangling, beating, and stabbing 93-year-old Cecelia Schneider to death on July 9, 2005, at her Tyler home. He then set her body and bed on fire and took her purse and car. During the investigation, Williams’s DNA and fingerprints were found in Schneider’s car, and he led detectives to the scene where he disposed of the murder weapon and her purse. Williams was convicted of the murder on October 27, 2006. Eight inmates have been executed so far in 2015.
