Bangkoktraveler Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 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." Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faustian Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 I'd say he's off the scale mad! But really is deserving of removal from the gene pool. I know the insanity plea is useful at times, but with this guy there's never going to be any way he can usefully contribute to humanity, except as fertilizer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 Hi, So, just kill him and get it over with. Guy is a lunatic who can't be trusted to live in society. Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devils reject Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 Don't worry, He's in Texas, sooner or later he will end up as fertilizer. At least when he gets executed they won't have to put on a blindfold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faustian Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 Ouch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 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. Sooner he checks out the better... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 Saved some $$ on his "last supper" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted January 10, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 Don't worry, He's in Texas, sooner or later he will end up as fertilizer. At least when he gets executed they won't have to put on a blindfold. GWB is no longer Govenor so it may take a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrenova Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 So he cut the heart out of his victims then just wait, give him some tools and let him cut his own heart out and eat it ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 Isn't it illegal to execute someone who is deemed insane? He's a nutcase obviously. Whether he is clinically insane or not, I have no idea but as gruesome as the killings were, he needs to put down, mentally ill or not. I can't see him being 'cured' if he is insane. There was a kid in my 3rd grade class who ate his boogers but an eye? Yuck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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