Why are hungry Texan convicts so scary?

MrFun · January 9, 2009, 17:48

This is why.

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."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090109/.../death_row_eye

snoopy369 · January 9, 2009, 18:18

Sounds like he watched Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom one too many times... George Lucas can do scary things to a person

SlowwHand · January 9, 2009, 18:23

Yes, but he can be rehabilitated and become a productive member of society. He's certainly no continuing threat.
(cough)

Six scheduled for January.

Ben Kenobi · January 9, 2009, 18:36

Texoma?

That's right on the OK border. I bet he crossed just so he could say he was from Texas.

Jon Miller · January 9, 2009, 19:12

Honestly, I don't see how mental insanity is an excuse?

I mean, yeah, really messed up people are insane, if they weren't insane they wouldn't be so evil. That doesn't mean that they don't get the results of their actions though.

JM

Traianvs · January 9, 2009, 21:10

Originally Posted by Jon Miller

Honestly, I don't see how mental insanity is an excuse?

I mean, yeah, really messed up people are insane, if they weren't insane they wouldn't be so evil. That doesn't mean that they don't get the results of their actions though.

JM

This still doesn't justify an execution.

Theben · January 10, 2009, 00:31

As long as they stay in Texas, they're not so scary.

SlowwHand · January 10, 2009, 00:37

No, because before it's over they won't be free to kill in your neighborhood.

Theben · January 10, 2009, 00:38

My neighborhood isn't in Texas.

SlowwHand · January 10, 2009, 00:40

Exactly.

Theben · January 10, 2009, 01:05

I know, I know, you guys love to kill each other. Just keep it to yourselves, okay?

David Floyd · January 10, 2009, 01:15

If you kill someone in Texas, we'll kill you back. Sane, retarded, disabled, black, white, rich, poor - it doesn't matter.

Well, if you're rich or white, we might not kill you. Poor, mentally retarded minorities better watch out, though!

Jon Miller · January 10, 2009, 01:18

Originally Posted by Traianvs

This still doesn't justify an execution.

Huh? It is the results of their crime. The execution is justified if they are the perpetrators.

Think about what the results of the action would be if there was no law. That is the justified result.

JM

SlowwHand · January 10, 2009, 01:27

Hey, we could eat them.

MrFun · January 10, 2009, 03:03

Originally Posted by SlowwHand

Yes, but he can be rehabilitated and become a productive member of society. He's certainly no continuing threat.
(cough)

Six scheduled for January.

EXTRA, EXTRA, READ ALL ABOUT IT!!

Opponents of the death penalty do not all necessarily believe that seriously violent felons criminals should simply be released back into society. Ever hear of life in prison??

onodera · January 10, 2009, 05:01

Eyes are tasty.
Well, fish eyes are.

Theben · January 10, 2009, 14:49

Originally Posted by David Floyd

If you kill someone in Texas, we'll kill you back. Sane, retarded, disabled, black, white, rich, poor - it doesn't matter.

Well, if you're rich or white, we might not kill you. Poor, mentally retarded minorities better watch out, though!

It's amazing there's still a sizable population.

Imran Siddiqui · January 10, 2009, 15:00

Originally Posted by David Floyd

If you kill someone in Texas, we'll kill you back. Sane, retarded, disabled, black, white, rich, poor - it doesn't matter.

Not anymore... unless you are violating Constitutional Law and not telling anyone.

chequita guevara · January 10, 2009, 15:59

Texas would never do that.

Asher · January 10, 2009, 16:04

Sounds like the death penalty makes a lot of sense in this case.

Dis · January 13, 2009, 02:51

things like this really make me want to kill myself. evil men like this always seem to find a woman to like them, yet I cannot. I cannot help but think I am the worst person on the planet.