Texas has executed a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club.

Texas has executed a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club

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.

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.