Texas has executed Richard Lee Tabler by lethal injection after he was found guilty of the murders of two people

Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this year.

In his final statement, Richard Tabler asked for forgiveness from his victims’ family members, some of whom reportedly witnessed his death.

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,

In 2008 he called then-state Sen. John Whitmire multiple times, prompting a massive prison lockdown and search for contraband cellphones.

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.

Tabler — the second person executed in Texas in a little over a week, with two more scheduled by the end of April — was condemned for the Thanksgiving 2004 shooting deaths of Mohammed-Amine Rahmouni,