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Texas executes Richard Lee Tabler, 46, for a 2004 double killing in a dispute with his strip club manager

Richard Tabler was executed by lethal injection in Texas on February 13, 2025, becoming the state's second death row inmate executed in 2025.
Tabler was convicted for the murders of Tiffany Dotson, 18, and Amanda Benefield, 16, who worked at the strip club in Killeen, between November 26 and November 28, 2004.
He expressed remorse before his execution, stating, 'There is not a day that goes by that I don't regret my actions,' and hopes for forgiveness from the victims' families.
Before his arrest, Tabler called the Bell County Sheriff’s Office, taunting deputies and threatening more violence towards club employees and law enforcement.

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Death Row Inmate Mouthed a 2-Word Message to His Victims’ Families in Final Moments Before His Execution

Richard Lee Tabler was arrested in November 2024 in connection to the deaths of two men, and was later found guilty of capital murder in the caseFRANCOIS PICARD/AFP via Getty The Huntsville Unit prison in Huntsville, Texas, is seen on September 14, 2024A man — who was convicted in Texas of a double homicide and admitted to killing two others — sought penance before his execution, according to multiple sources.Richard Lee Tabler, 46, addressed t…

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The Epoch Times

Texas Executes Man for 2004 Double Killing in Dispute With His Manager

HUNTSVILLE, Texas—A Texas man who killed his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison system when he used a cellphone smuggled onto death row to threaten a lawmaker, was executed Thursday night. Richard Lee Tabler, 46, was given a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. The time of death was 6:38 p.m. CT, 15 minutes after a lethal dose of the powerful sedative pentobarbital …

7 days ago·New York, United States

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Inmate’s final two words before execution

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.

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Man executed for 2004 Killeen murders

Huntsville, Tx (FOX 44) - A man convicted in a Killeen double homicide and who had admitted killing two others has been executed. Richard Lee Tabler had been convicted in the murders of Mohomad-Amine Rahnouni and Haitham Zayed in a Killeen parking lot. They were killed November 25, 2004. He also admitted to the murder of two teenaged girls, but had not been tried in their deaths. “More than twenty years after his violent murder spree during Than…

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Texas death row inmate mouths final 2-word message to victims’ families before execution

Richard Lee Tabler, 46, also admitted to killing two teenage dancers at the club and said he had found God during his two decades in prison.

8 days ago·New York, United States

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The Huntsville Item

Tabler was relaxed in hours before execution

Richard "Blue" Lee Tabler, 45, was relaxed in the hours before his execution for the murder of two men and two women in 2004, according to TDCJ officials. He was put to death with a single dose of pentobarbital, but…

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