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Richard Tabler Seeks Execution Date

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The Killeen Daily Herald reports, "Tabler asks state to kill him."Richard Tabler has politely asked to die. Tabler, 30, of Killeen, admitted to killing four people during a spree during Thanksgiving weekend in 2004 and was sentenced to death last year. On Tuesday, he appeared in front of 264th District Court Judge Martha Trudo and asked that his further appeals be blocked. He asked the same in a letter to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, politely volunteering for execution. "Greetings and peace be unto you!" he wrote in the letter, dated Aug. 11. "I've spoken with my appeal attorneys and they've advised me that they don't believe it's their job to notify the courts that I'd like to waive my rights to habeas corpus proceeding and volunteer for execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 02, 2008 (boomark / email).