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.

In the second US execution of the night, killer Richard Lee Tabler was put to death via lethal injection in Texas after he killed four people in a fit of rage in 2004

Tabler is set to be executed at 7 p.m. ET, one hour after the 6 p.m. execution of James Dennis Ford in Florida. They're set to become the nation's fourth and fifth executions this year.

A Texas death row inmate was executed Thursday, the country's second lethal injection of the day, expressing remorse for the 2004 murders at a Killeen strip club.