In Tabler v. Lumpkin, the ACLU represents a Texas death row prisoner whose lawyers refused to represent him at a hearing to determine his capacity to decide whether to give up his state ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (TEXAS TRIBUNE) — For years, Richard Tabler went back and forth on whether he wanted to be executed for two murders he once boasted about committing. On Thursday evening ...

Texas death row inmate Richard Tabler was executed Thursday evening in Huntsville. Tabler was the second man to be executed in Texas in 2025. Credit: Maria Crane/The Texas Tribune ...

B.A., 2010, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) summa cum laude, Sociology. Dr. Tabler is a medical sociologist with interests in mental health, aging and the lifecourse, and health ...