Hungry? Why wait -- Eat your own eyeball!

DeToxRox · 01-10-2009, 11:33 AM

Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it - Yahoo! News

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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."

M GO BLUE!!! · 01-10-2009, 11:48 AM

I'm at work in a newsroom. I just showed this to the reporter who finished her news report a couple minutes ago... Totally grossed her out!

Greyroofoo · 01-10-2009, 11:52 AM

Now he has another hole to be prison raped!

Lathum · 01-10-2009, 11:55 AM

Only in Texas would he still be found competent to stand trial.

Autumn · 01-10-2009, 12:07 PM

He should be required to submit his brain to science after execution. I think we definitely need to know what happens to a person's brain that they would do these things.

Greyroofoo · 01-10-2009, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Autumn

He should be required to submit his brain to science after execution. I think we definitely need to know what happens to a person's brain that they would do these things.

They better execute him before he eats it then.

Senator · 01-10-2009, 12:24 PM

Only in Texas - Let's hear it America!!

Crim · 01-10-2009, 01:02 PM

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..."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."...

Seriously?

RendeR · 01-10-2009, 01:04 PM

Fact is for what he did he should have been dead before he ever had the chance to sit on death row. Insanity of that leel where he destroyed and mutilated his family isn't recoverable and cannot ever be corrected to a point where he can live in society in any way, he should have been put down sooner.

Crim · 01-10-2009, 01:20 PM

Agree with rENDEr.

01-10-2009, 12:24 PM	#7
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01-10-2009, 01:04 PM	#9
RendeR Coordinator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Buffalo, NY	Fact is for what he did he should have been dead before he ever had the chance to sit on death row. Insanity of that leel where he destroyed and mutilated his family isn't recoverable and cannot ever be corrected to a point where he can live in society in any way, he should have been put down sooner. __________________ http://wotlabs.net/s...8/signature.png http://wotlabs.net/sig_dark/na/banichi18/signature.png

01-10-2009, 11:48 AM	#2
M GO BLUE!!! Pro Starter Join Date: Sep 2005	I'm at work in a newsroom. I just showed this to the reporter who finished her news report a couple minutes ago... Totally grossed her out!

01-10-2009, 11:52 AM	#3
Greyroofoo Pro Starter Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Alabama	Now he has another hole to be prison raped!

01-10-2009, 11:55 AM	#4
Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	Only in Texas would he still be found competent to stand trial.

01-10-2009, 12:07 PM	#5
Autumn Head Coach Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Bath, ME	He should be required to submit his brain to science after execution. I think we definitely need to know what happens to a person's brain that they would do these things.

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