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 ...

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

He would be the second inmate executed in Texas in a little over a week, with two more scheduled by the end of April.

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...