Okay, I kept the thread title as tame as could be. So, for you brave souls who actually clicked, here goes ....
Back in early December, as he sat in his Death Row prison cell in Texas, Andre Thomas, age 25, plucked out his own eyeball and ate it.
It gets more gruesome.
It was evidently his only good eye. His other eyeball was already missing ... because it was LIKEWISE plucked out --by his own hand-- back in 2004 as he awaited trial for a triple-murder. He had killed his wife and their two sons: a newborn infant and a 4-year old. The eyeball incident back in 2004 caused a judge to deem himincompetant to stand trial. So he's been on Death Row ever since.
(And in addition to murdering the wife and the kids, he also pulled out their hearts and stuffed them raw and dripping and totally uncovered into his pockets, went home, and then trash canned them.)
Here's a quote from the story that (I think) justifies this entire thread as being MORE than just a freak show shock-thread, and makes it a topic worthy of discussion.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090109/ap_on_re_us/death_row_eye
So this guy is a CERTIFIABLE NUT-CASE, and yet the system hasn't truly attended to his mental health issues for the past 5 years.
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Back in early December, as he sat in his Death Row prison cell in Texas, Andre Thomas, age 25, plucked out his own eyeball and ate it.
It gets more gruesome.
It was evidently his only good eye. His other eyeball was already missing ... because it was LIKEWISE plucked out --by his own hand-- back in 2004 as he awaited trial for a triple-murder. He had killed his wife and their two sons: a newborn infant and a 4-year old. The eyeball incident back in 2004 caused a judge to deem him
(And in addition to murdering the wife and the kids, he also pulled out their hearts and stuffed them raw and dripping and totally uncovered into his pockets, went home, and then trash canned them.)
Here's a quote from the story that (I think) justifies this entire thread as being MORE than just a freak show shock-thread, and makes it a topic worthy of discussion.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090109/ap_on_re_us/death_row_eye
Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
By MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press Writer -- January 9, 2009
HOUSTON--
[...]
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."
So this guy is a CERTIFIABLE NUT-CASE, and yet the system hasn't truly attended to his mental health issues for the past 5 years.
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