Texas Death Row Inmate Pulls Out Eye, Eats It
AP/TDOCJ A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye, authorities said Friday. Andre Thomas told officers he ate it.
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.
While in the Grayson County Jail in Sherman, Thomas similarly had 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 had him taken to the unit infirmary.
“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.”
He wasn’t judged insane for the first eye? Or the hearts he ripped out? Oh, right, Texas justice.
How the heck do you get a link into this blog that works?
Sorry Mustard, you’ll have to cut n’ paste…
F#&* you #27.
Wherever you are, stay there because we don’t want you.
#32 – FTR
OK, I was looking at the wrong figures. However, my point still stands: Maine has about 8% the number of voters Ohio has.
As to getting a link to work, you’re on your own. TinyURL seems to work, but anything other than that is a crap shoot.