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.
All I could say was, WOW.
About the Insanity Plea.
The whole “Not guilty by reason of insanity” goes along the philosophical line that if you’re incapable of understanding that you committed a crime, then you cannot be tried for that crime. (I wish I could use this argument at every speed trap I encounter. “Why officer, I was unaware that this 15 feet of roadway was only 25 MPH while the rest is 55.” “Sorry”, says officer WriteEmUp, “Ignorance of the law is no excuse”.)
For me, the result in this case, insane or not, would be the same. Lock him up in a 7′X10′ cell for the rest of his life. This guy can never be let back on the street again.
If you wanna take your eye
Better do it while you can
So eat it (eat it eat it)
Just eat it (eat it eat it)
Huh!
I think somebody slipped the guy a “Catch 22″ DVD: “A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.” “This catch keeps Yossarian in the war because a concern for one’s own life proved that he is not really crazy, and to get out of combat you have to be crazy.”
Or was that MASH and Cpl. Klinger? Trivia: The movie MASH and Catch 22 were released the same year.
RBG
To the guy that posted this.
I’d be more than happy to let this guy out. When can you pick him up?
If he hurts anybody due to your carelessness I think you ought to be thrown to starving bear.
Just so we understand each other.
He may be guilty for reasons of insanity but he isn’t innocent and he is and will be threat to the safety of eveybody around him including himself for as long as he lives.
If you are nuts enough to want him you are welcome to him but if you take him you owe blood dept if he hurts somebody.
That’s the way I see it.
throw a rope into his cell and see what games he can play
Of course he’s a Democrat. They’re the party that recruits voters in prisons.
Wind farms. Now there’s finally a reason for texas to even exist. I deliberately did not capitalize.
To the guy who posted #24.
Sarcasm is wasted these days. The comments were meant as a criticism of the judicial system (such as it is) in the Great State Of Texas.
This state enforces capital punishment. I have no opinion on whether or not it’s OK to execute a man who is obviously totally insane.
And, just so you know, I’m a Texan.
#26 – Lyin’ Mike
>>They’re the party that recruits voters in
>>prisons.
Oh, there you go lyin’, Mike. Everybody knows that only Maine and Vermont allowed incarcerated individuals to vote, and there aren’t enough Dems in Maine or Vermont to make it worth their while.
On the other hand, Repubs are more likely to GO to prison, what with all their corruption, so that would be a more productive line of activity, I would think.
Source: Maine Secretary of State’s Office
Registered voters as of June 5, 2008
Total: 907,650 registered voters
293,296 Democrats (32 percent)
252,963 Republicans (28 percent)
335,876 Independents (37 percent)
25,515 Green (3 percent)
New registered voters since Jan. 1, 2007
Democrats: 6,517
Green: 595
Independents: 5,32
Republicans: 2,272
I can’t give stats on Vermont, as Vermont has no party registration. But looking at the FACTS, it appears that Democrats out number Republicans in Maine.
#30 – FTM
Yes, the Dems slightly outnumber the Repubs in Maine, but the overall NUMBER is chump change.
The total number of registered voters in the whole state of Maine is about 1/2 the number of NEWLY registered voters in Ohio between Jan and Sep of 2008.
From an Associated Press article:
“Cuyahoga, Franklin and Hamilton counties — the state’s largest, respectively — saw the most new voters, in that order. Cuyahoga, a heavily Democratic county, saw its voting rolls increase by about 123,000 voters since Jan. 1 to a total of roughly 1.1 million.”
Here’s the full article:
http://www.ohio.com/news/ohiocentric/30627849.html
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.