SharkTums Posted January 10, 2009 Posted January 10, 2009 Texas Inmate Pulls Out Eye, Eats It By MICHAEL GRACZYK, AP (Jan. 9) - 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." Yay for TPR Texas Trip! Boo for Texas having so many crazy people living there!
QueerRudie Posted January 10, 2009 Posted January 10, 2009 I've been waiting a while for an opportunity like this... When the jury was polled over the quesiton of whether or not to execute this inmate, they took a poll.... and the EYES had it.
TheRapidsNerd Posted January 10, 2009 Posted January 10, 2009 When he says he'll keep an eye out for you, he means it.
ginzo Posted January 10, 2009 Posted January 10, 2009 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. Nice guy.
onewheeled999 Posted January 10, 2009 Posted January 10, 2009 This is almost as bad as that thing on How It's Made where it shows how they make prosthetic eyes.
ebl Posted January 10, 2009 Posted January 10, 2009 This guy knows a good snack when he sees it... He should have downloaded music from EyeTunes to play while he ate... Eric
ebl Posted January 10, 2009 Posted January 10, 2009 I just re-read the article, and real-eye-zed that this was not the first time the guy did this. Now he's done it...tw-eye-ce! Eric
Cyber.Fiber Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 LOL. Yeah EYE thought EYE read that and you just verified that for me.
Airtime&Gravity Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 Wow, that is really messed up. I'm curious as to why he isn't in a mental institution because I'm sure that if you cut the heart out of the person you just murdered, you are either insane or satanic. Also, if he was ruled sane after if took his first eye out, he'll probably be ruled insane now. Eye guess the Texas...yeah, I don't know where I'm going with this.
robbalvey Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 OMG! We need to see if we can get this guy to come tell jokes on the bus during the TPR Texas trip! --Robb
Meteornotes Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 ^There is no way he will be more entertaining than me. dt
DiSab Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 EYE don't know how funny this story is, but it's just oozing with vitreous humor.
ebl Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 "OMG! We need to see if we can get this guy to come tell jokes on the bus during the TPR Texas trip!" (Robb) He'll never see what he's getting himself into... Eric
bigstevet07 Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 I believe he was heard saying, "I'd give my right eye to get paroled."
paintballer Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 I am so proud of my state right now...God bless Texas...
cfc Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 I just re-read the article, and real-eye-zed that this was not the first time the guy did this. Now he's done it...tw-eye-ce! Eric His actions betray a serious lack of foresight on his part.
Kennyweird Posted January 14, 2009 Posted January 14, 2009 This guy must be an eyesore, and sore, now that he's missing both his eyes. It was a major oversight on the court's part part not to give him ps-eye-chiatric treatment, but now they have the vision to see the errors in their ways and have transferred him to a psych ward. So in the end the guy got what he wanted, eye guess. On the bright side, at least when the do establish an execution date, he won't see it coming.
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