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« on: January 10, 2009, 09:31:PM »

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Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it

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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."

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« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2009, 09:33:PM »
I just lost my supper.
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« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2009, 09:33:PM »

With all that time on death row he gave into navel gazing.
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« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2009, 09:36:PM »
Did the eye offend him?

I'm reminded of: http://www.literature.org/authors/poe-edgar-allan/tell-tale-heart.html
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« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2009, 09:36:PM »
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« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2009, 09:40:PM »

I was thinking it was going to turn into Jesus with 'pluck out your eye if it scandalizes you'
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« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2009, 09:41:PM »
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"He will finally be able to receive the mental health care that we had wanted and begged for from day 1," 

He doesn't need a psychiatrist, he needs an exorcist. 
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« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2009, 09:42:PM »
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I was thinking it was going to turn into Jesus with 'pluck out your eye if it scandalizes you'



It did. That was the basis for my comment, although I used the KJV wording I think.
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« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2009, 09:47:PM »
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"He will finally be able to receive the mental health care that we had wanted and begged for from day 1," 

He doesn't need a psychiatrist, he needs an exorcist. 
Ditto to that.  I also find it curious that it says he has a drug and alcohol problem.  Does he have access to drugs and alcohol on death row?  I seriously doubt it. Something is definitely going on if he can pluck out his own eye and he's not on any kind of drug.
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« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2009, 09:51:PM »

I say bat-sh** crazy!

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Foolish then, is he who departs from the Vicar of Christ Crucified, who has the keys of the Blood, or who goes against him . . . Even though the pope were satan incarnate himself, I may not lift up my head against him, but I must always humble myself, and beg for the Blood as a mercy, for in no other wise can I obtain a part of it -St. Catherine of Sienna.


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