Richard Lee Tabler, a Texas man convicted of multiple murders, was scheduled to be executed on Thursday. In 2004, Tabler killed his strip club manager and another man during a planned ambush in Central Texas. He also confessed to the killings of two teenage girls who worked at the club. Tabler has repeatedly asked that his appeals be dropped and that he be executed, though questions have been raised about his mental competence.
Tabler’s case gained notoriety when he used a smuggled cellphone on death row to threaten a senator, prompting a massive lockdown of the Texas prison system. Despite appeals by the ACLU claiming he was denied adequate legal representation, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt his execution.
Investigators revealed that Tabler had a conflict with his manager, who threatened his family, leading Tabler to recruit a soldier to help him ambush and kill his manager and another man. Tabler later confessed to the murders and threatened to kill more people before his arrest.
Tabler’s history includes a prison record with suicide attempts and changing his mind on his appeal multiple times. The pending execution will mark the second in Texas in a little over a week, with two more scheduled by the end of April.
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