HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — 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, was executed Thursday night.

The BriefRichard Tabler is scheduled to be executed in Huntsville, Texas on Thursday evening.Tabler was convicted of killing two men in Killeen.He would be the second man put to death in Texas this year.

Richard Tabler called officials to brag about killing four people in Killeen in 2004. He was convicted for two of the deaths.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death Wednesday evening, the second execution in the U.S. this year and the first of four scheduled in Texas over the next three months.

Texas is set to execute Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of beloved pastor Clint Dobson, who was just beginning his ministerial career.

A man on death row for killing a North Texas pastor is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday evening in Huntsville.

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.