A repentant prisoner in the death cell argued for forgiveness and has a final message before he was put to death in Texas Thursday, 20 years after he killed his comic club manager and another man.
Richard Lee Tabler, 46, also admitted that he had killed two teenage dancers in the club and said he had found God during his two decades in prison.
“I did not have the right to take you from you, and I ask and pray, hope and pray, that one day you will find it in your heart to forgive me for those actions,” Tabler said tied to the death room Gurney, looked at family members of his victims who watched a few feet distance through a window. “No quantity of my apologies will ever bring them back to you.”
Richard Lee Tabler seen in a photo.
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He told the family members of the victims that there was not a day that he did not regret his actions and thanked prison officers for their compassion and show that he “could change and become a better man and rehabilitation.”
After he apologized several times, Tabler said it was the start of a new life for him in heaven.
He told the director of the State Fine in Huntsville: “I’m ready”, and while the drugs started to flow in his body, he was left: “I’m sorry.”
Tabler then started breathing quickly. After about a dozen breathing, all movement stopped.
Tabler shot and killed Mohammed-Amine Rahmouni, 28, and Haitham Zayed, 25, in a remote area near Killeen in Central Texas at Thanksgiving 2004 after they had lured them there on the false pretension of buying stolen stereo equipment .
Rahmouni was the co-owner of a club called Teazers and the two had fallen out.
Researchers said Allegedly, Rahmouni said that he could “wipe out” the Tabler family for $ 10.
The Huntsville Unit Prison in Huntsville, Texas, (Francois Picard/AFP via Getty images)
Two days later Scot tabler and killed An 18-year-old dancer in the club, Tiffany Loraine Dotson, whom he said he had seen, along with another dancer, the 16-year-old Amanda Benefield.
Tabler was convicted of killing the two men and sentenced to death, so prosecutors did not have to strive for the murders of the young women, told Paul McWilliams, who continued tabler almost two decades ago, to USA Today.
“The murder of the men was as cold -blooded as it could be,” said McWilliams. “Killing the girls was just meaningless. There was absolutely no reason for that.”
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Dotson’s father, George, was one of the witnesses. He refused to comment on tabler’s apologies and said he needed time to process what he had just seen, but was happy that he had seen it.
“I couldn’t wait,” he said. “It took me 20 years to get here.”
“Today is for Tiffany,” said her godfather, Tom Newton. “And this is justice.”
In 2008, Tabler led reason for a huge lockdown in the prison of 150,000 prisoners when he smuggled a mobile phone to the facility and started conducting the death threats to the then senator John Whitmire, who is now the mayor of Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via Getty images)
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During the conviction phase of his trial, prosecutors introduced the written and recorded statements from Tabler and said that he killed Dotson and Benefield because he was worried that they would tell people that he had killed the men.
Tabler had asked several times For courts To stop his calls and make him executed. His lawyers wondered if he was mentally competent.
In 2008 he led to a huge lockdown in the prison of 150,000 prisoners when he smuggled a mobile phone to the facility and started to feed the death-threatening phone calls to the then senator John Whitmire, who is now the mayor of Houston.
The Associated Press has contributed to this report.
