Inmate Rips Own Eye Out. Claims He Ate It

[Shemtov]

Wow that's messed up. What annoys me is that the authorities did not deem him insane before.

he's not insane. he just did it so people would think he was.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Ahhh man, this sounds so cool! I'd love to have been there when he did it!

 

[Sentinel X]

he's not insane. he just did it so people would think he was.

He sounds pretty insane to me...I mean who does that? Rip your eye out then eat it, that is very painful...I think he might as well have commited suicide. And the brutality of his muders (ripping out their hearts) sounds like something an insane individual wouuld commit.

I understand that there is obviously a benefit to being claimed "insane" that way he avoids the death sentence but it seems a bit of a stretch...Why would someone rip their eyes out and eat, I think suicide would be the better option...or maybe he WAS trying to kill himself by bleeding to death, idk

This guy is one of two things however: either he is Crazy as HELL or he is just as dumb as a brick!

 

[Hotwire]

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. He was convicted and condemned for the infant's death.

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.

"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 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."

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, Andre Lee, 4.

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.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6202701.html

It's stories like this that make me wish there was a puking smiley.

I bet they didn't see that coming.

Trying to see his inner-self perhaps?

 

[Raiden]

What this guy did to both of his eyes are sick, but what he did to his own family is even more disgusting imo.

 

[Bnightwing]

He'll probably try to swallow his tongue next.

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[kane9321]

huh..er damn?

 

[Alex The Great]

The Hell? :scared:

 

[xisaacx]

I wonder how it taste

 

[Bill]

Like Chicken.