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| Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it |
| 2009-01-10 |
| How'd you like to be this guy's cellmate? 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. Well at least he can't see anymore to rip anyone else's heart out. 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. Geez, judge. Didya think he was just showing off? 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. You did...what? 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. The "Jester Unit"? Yeah, he's a Barrel of Laughs... "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." I dunno, honey. I don't think there's enough money or time on the planet to help this guy. At his trial, defense lawyers also argued he suffered from alcohol and drug abuse. I think that's the least of his problems. Thomas does not have an execution date. I think I might wanna set one. Preferably as soon as possible. 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. He 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." People like this walk the planet. Isn't that comforting... |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #6 is this guy related to the Pak with the saw a few articles down? |
| Posted by: Sheba Glamble4290 2009-01-10 16:05 |
| #5 But, Steve, IT needed to see YOU. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2009-01-10 03:39 |
| #4 I don't see how this guy could get the death penalty. |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-01-10 02:51 |
| #3 At least there's some vegetables to square out that meal. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2009-01-10 02:38 |
| #2 GB, I so-o-o-o-o did not need to see that ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-01-10 01:33 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2009-01-10 01:27 |