Ravenous Wolf Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats ithttp://www.mysanantonio.com/Texas_death_row_inmate_pulls_out_eye_eats_it.htmlAssociated Press - HOUSTON -- A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye and told authorities he ate it. Andre Thomas, 25, was arrested for the fatal stabbings of his estranged wife, their young son and her 13-month-old daughter in March 2004. Their hearts also had been ripped out. He was convicted and condemned for the infant's death. While in the Grayson County Jail in Sherman, Thomas plucked out his right eye before his trial later in 2004. A judge subsequently ruled he was competent to stand trial. A death-row officer at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice found Thomas in his cell with blood on his face and took him to the infirmary. ""Thomas said he pulled out his eye and subsequently ingested it," agency spokesman Jason Clark said Friday. Thomas was treated at East Texas Medical Center in Tyler after the Dec. 9 incident. Then he was transferred and remains at the Jester Unit, a prison psychiatric facility near Richmond southwest of Houston. "He will finally be able to receive the mental health care that we had wanted and begged for from day 1," Bobbie Peterson-Cate, Thomas' trial attorney, told the Sherman Herald Democrat. "He is insane and mentally ill. It is exactly the same reason he pulled out the last one." At his trial, defense lawyers also argued he suffered from alcohol and drug abuse. Thomas does not have an execution date. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in October upheld his conviction and death sentence for the death of 13-month-old Leyha Marie Hughes. Also killed March 27, 2004, were his wife, Laura Christine Boren, 20, and their son, 4-year-old Andre Lee. Thomas, from Texoma, walked into the Sherman Police Department and told a dispatcher he had just murdered the three and had stabbed himself in the chest. Thomas told police how he put his victims' hearts in his pocket and left their apartment, took them home, put them in a plastic bag and threw them in the trash. Court documents described the three victims as having "large, gaping wounds to their chests." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravenous Wolf Posted January 10, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 The authorities need to keep an eye out for this guy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stefdr Posted January 11, 2009 Report Share Posted January 11, 2009 I was going to send this guy a get well card, but he wouldn't be able to read it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nascar Posted January 11, 2009 Report Share Posted January 11, 2009 Perhaps he's been spending too much time reading the Off Topic forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthewscott Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 The authorities need to keep an eye out for this guy...That's true yet so wrong all at the same time. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
someonesomewhere Posted January 16, 2009 Report Share Posted January 16, 2009 Thomas does not have an execution date.Well duh. Bring the guy a fork and a steak knife. He'll create one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMGWhatHaveIdone Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 I am soooo glad I was not eating anything when I read this.... that's just totally gross. Ick. See children... this is why you don't do drugs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravenous Wolf Posted January 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 Well duh. Bring the guy a fork and a steak knife. He'll create one.And he would save the taxpayers a lot of money if he had fork and a steak knife... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stefdr Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 I am soooo glad I was not eating anything when I read this.... that's just totally gross. Ick. See children... this is why you don't do drugs.Maybe he had a flashback to the this is your brain, this is your brain on drugs commercial with the eggs and the frying pan and thought it was time for breakfast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMGWhatHaveIdone Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 Ya know,I remember that commercial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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