Texas Executes Richard Lee Tabler for 2004 Double Homicide in Bell County

Texas has executed Richard Lee Tabler, convicted of a double homicide and the killing of two others, after Attorney General Ken Paxton fought to uphold his death sentence.

Tabler, 47, was executed on Thursday, February 13, 2025, at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Huntsville. He was pronounced dead at 6:38 p.m.

On November 25, 2004, Tabler lured Mohamed-Amine Rahmouni and Haitham Zayed to a parking lot under the pretense of selling cheap stereo equipment. He murdered both men with a borrowed handgun. Four days later, law enforcement arrested Tabler, who confessed to the killings and also admitted to murdering two women he believed had connected him to the prior murders.

In April 2007, a Bell County jury convicted Tabler of capital murder for the deaths of Rahmouni and Zayed, a conviction upheld by every court that reviewed the case.

“More than twenty years after his violent murder spree during Thanksgiving weekend, Richard Lee Tabler has been held accountable for his heinous actions,” said Attorney General Paxton. “The State of Texas has carried out the sentence imposed by a jury of the defendant’s peers, delivering justice for the victims and their families.”