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Texas to execute man for 2004 murders of strip club manager and friend
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FILE - This undated photo released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Richard Lee Tabler. The Texas death row inmate whose threatening calls to legislator prompted a prison system lockdown and a crackdown on contraband lost his appeal Wednesday Dec. 16, 2009 over a 2004 double slaying. - photo by AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice, File
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who murdered his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison system when he used a cellphone smuggled into death row to threaten a lawmaker, was scheduled to be executed Thursday. Richard Lee Tabler, 46, would be the second inmate executed in Texas in a little over a week, with two more scheduled by the end of April. He's set to receive a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.