Tabler's execution came about an hour after Florida executed James Dennis Ford. Tabler was convicted of a 2004 double murder, and Ford was convicted of a double murder in 1997.

Texas has executed a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club.

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,