Richard Lee Tabler, a Texas man, was scheduled to be executed for the murder of two men outside of Killeen, Texas in 2004. Tabler also confessed to killing two teenage girls who worked at the strip club where he was employed. He has repeatedly requested to have his appeals dropped and to be put to death, although there have been questions about his mental competence regarding that decision. Tabler’s phone calls from death row in 2008, threatening a lawmaker, led to a massive lockdown of the Texas prison system. The ACLU has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on his behalf, claiming he was denied adequate legal representation during his lower court appeals. Tabler had a conflict with the strip club manager, Mohammed-Amine Rahmouni, who he later shot along with his friend, Haitham Zayed. Tabler also admitted to killing the two teenage girls out of fear they would reveal his involvement in the men’s murders. Before his arrest, Tabler taunted law enforcement about the killings and made further threats. Despite the appeal, the court has refused to halt his execution. Whitmire, the lawmaker Tabler threatened, declined to comment on the pending execution. Tabler’s case is notable for the extreme lengths he went to in order to carry out the murders and his subsequent behavior while in prison.
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