Richard Lee Tabler (February 5, 1979 – February 13, 2025) was an American spree killer who was responsible for four murders committed in 2004. On Thanksgiving Day of 2004, Tabler and a co-defendant shot and killed two men at a nightclub in Killeen, Texas.Two days later, Tabler also killed two teenage girls who worked as dancers at the same nightclub where he committed the …

Jan 12, 2024 · In the foreboding corridors of Texas’ death row, condemned men spit out a name with a mix of loathing and disgust: Richard “Blue” Tabler. Such a reputation among fellow prisoners condemned to death speaks volumes about his disregard for life and prison norms.

Feb 13, 2025 · HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — 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 ...

Feb 13, 2025 · (The Texas Tribune) - Richard Tabler was executed Thursday for the murders of two men in 2004, which he confessed to, after years of going back and forth on whether he wanted to appeal his death...

Feb 12, 2025 · Tabler and Lane believe that prison officials have singled him out after he obtained a prohibited cellphone while on Death Row in 2008 and made calls to then-state Sen. John Whitmire (a Democrat ...

Feb 13, 2025 · Richard Lee Tabler, 46, is the second inmate executed in Texas in a little over a week, with two more executions scheduled by the end of April. ... Tabler’s death row phone calls in 2008 to ...

Feb 7, 2025 · Richard Tabler, 45, is the second person scheduled to be executed in Texas this year, with his death by lethal injection set for February 13. Tabler confessed to shooting and killing four...

Feb 13, 2025 · Richard Tabler was executed Thursday for the murders of two men in 2004, which he confessed to, after years of going back and forth on whether he wanted to appeal his death sentence.

Feb 13, 2025 · Who is Richard Lee Tabler today? During his 20 years behind bars, Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates.

On November 26, 2004 in Bell County, Tabler and codefendant drove up next to a vehicle driven by two men of foreign nationality. Tabler shot one of the men once in the head and the other twice in the neck with a .45 Ruger, fatally wounding one of the victims.