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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Miss Mia on January 09, 2009, 06:09:40 PM
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Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090109/ap_on_re_us/death_row_eye)
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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.
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ewwwwww :puke:
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an eye for an I, so to speak.
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an eye for an I, so to speak.
Heh! :-)
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Guess that last meal won't be necessary after all. Let's fire up Sparky and get this show on the road. Every day this asshat continues to breathe he's wasting taxpayer money.
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Guess that last meal won't be necessary after all. Let's fire up Sparky and get this show on the road. Every day this asshat continues to breathe he's wasting taxpayer money.
I shit my eyes out once, but that was because I was hammered the night before.
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I shit my eyes out once, but that was because I was hammered the night before.
TMI, WE. T-M-I.
(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y138/firelatte/smiles/shocker.gif)
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TMI, WE. T-M-I.
(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y138/firelatte/smiles/shocker.gif)
I shit a shoe out that morning, too. I have no idea where THAT came from.
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I shit a shoe out that morning, too. I have no idea where THAT came from.
Sneaker, loafer or pump?
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Sneaker, loafer or pump?
i didn't actually notice. and I never wear pumps. :whatever: :-)
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i didn't actually notice. and I never wear pumps outside the house :whatever: :-)
Fixed. :-)
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Fixed. :-)
yeah, that's much better. :whatever:
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yeah, that's much better. :whatever:
For my sense of humor it is. It made me laugh. :-)
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For my sense of humor it is. It made me laugh. :-)
you set yourself up for an easy KO on that one, but I won't take it. :-)
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you set yourself up for an easy KO on that one, but I won't take it. :-)
Come on, go ahead. I won't be upset.
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Come on, go ahead. I won't be upset.
i would feel guilty in the morning.
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i would feel guilty in the morning.
Not nearly as much as when you pulled the pump outta your butt.
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Not nearly as much as when you pulled the pump outta your butt.
strictly speaking, baby, that isn't "guilt". it's a "typical hangover".
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strictly speaking, baby, that isn't "guilt". it's a "typical hangover".
So do you have a whole collection of women's shoes that have been in your butt?
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So do you have a whole collection of women's shoes that have been in your butt?
under the bed, mostly. across the room, frequently. and in one incredible encounter, in the neighbor's front yard.
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under the bed, mostly. across the room, frequently. and in one incredible encounter, in the neighbor's front yard.
And your neighbor didn't call the police. Cool neighborhood.
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And your neighbor didn't call the police. Cool neighborhood.
nope. he called the fire department.
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nope. he called the fire department.
Okay, I was looking for that scene from Tommy Boy where Chris Farley is getting sprayed down by water at the gas station singing "I'm a maniac," but I couldn't so this will have to suffice.
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It could get messy if this guy gets a hankering for chitlins.
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He is clearly mentally ill.
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Mentally ill or not, why is he still breathing?
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He is clearly mentally ill.
Ya think?
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If this guy somehow goes back into society, let's keep an eye out for him.
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Dunno about that. I just don't think he'll be blind with remorse.