Current Events > Court debates if man who ate his own eye is mentally fit for execution.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Attorneys for a Texas death row inmate who removed his only eye and ate it in a bizarre outburst argued to a federal appeals court that he suffers from mental illness and should not be considered for execution.

Andre Thomas, 35, of Texoma, was convicted of killing 13-month-old Leyha Marie Hughes, his estranged wifes daughter in March 2004. His estranged wife Laura Christine Boren, 20, and their son Andre Lee, 4, were also murdered in the same attack that occurred in Grayson County, about 60 miles north of Dallas.

The victims were stabbed and had their hearts ripped out. Thomas told police he put the hearts in his pocket, and took them home, where he placed them in a plastic bag and then threw them in the trash.

Thomas stabbed himself a few times before he walked to the Sherman Police Department and told them that he had murdered the trio. He claimed God told him to commit the killings.

Thomas has a history of mental problems. While in jail five days after his arrest, he plucked out one of his eyes. A judge ruled him competent for trial. While on death row in 2009, he removed his remaining eye and told prison officials he ate it. Hes now at a prison psychiatric unit.

A federal judge in 2016 rejected an appeal from Thomas and his attorneys, who then took their their case to the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The 5th Circuit Court heard their oral arguments Tuesday on whether appeals can move forward.

In written filings before the arguments, attorney Catherine M.A. Carroll contended Thomas mental illness went undiagnosed and untreated until after the delusions it caused led him to commit the crime here.

She also argued Thomas trial lawyers failed to do several things, including not challenging a judges ruling that found Thomas competent for trial, not requesting a competency hearing, failing to uncover and present to jurors a wealth of evidence demonstrating that Thomas mental illness was profound and long-standing and allowing racially biased jurors to be impaneled.

The Herald Democrat reported Carroll argued for about 30 minutes Tuesday for Thomas appeal. The media outlet noted that if she failed then Thomas would be one step closer to getting an execution date.

Full ARticle: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/07/federal-appeals-court-weighs-if-texas-inmate-who-ate-his-eye-is-mentally-fit-for-execution.html



I think this guy misunderstood what "Eye for an eye" meant.

What do you think CE?

Edit: No, he is NOT mentally fit for execution
---

I think this is the one time where your topic would've benefit from not having a picture.
---

I like how either way he is fit to be executed according to the poll.
---

Seems like he did the state a favor. Now there is less of him to put down.
---

WTF?

I just don't even know anymore

About anything

Master_Bass posted...

I like how either way he is fit to be executed according to the poll.

the questions unfairly represent the possible options
---

The victims were stabbed and had their hearts ripped out. Thomas told police he put the hearts in his pocket, and took them home, where he placed them in a plastic bag and then threw them in the trash.

Thomas stabbed himself a few times before he walked to the Sherman Police Department and told them that he had murdered the trio. He claimed God told him to commit the killings.

He sounds mentally unfit for existence
---

VectorChaos posted...

The victims were stabbed and had their hearts ripped out. Thomas told police he put the hearts in his pocket, and took them home, where he placed them in a plastic bag and then threw them in the trash.

Thomas stabbed himself a few times before he walked to the Sherman Police Department and told them that he had murdered the trio. He claimed God told him to commit the killings.

He sounds mentally unfit for existence

So you support execution?
---

He ate his own eye... Letting him stay alive sounds like it would be more of a punishment than the actual execution.
---

ShutTheF---_Up posted...

I think this is the one time where your topic would've benefit from not having a picture.

---

I don't support the death penalty.
---

I don't see why his mental state is relevant. If you kill an infant, you don't deserve to continue existing

LOL at finding someone mentally unfit for execution. Like, his life is suddenly found valuable.
---

He'd probably enjoy execution tbh.

How did this guy even get married, FFS.
---

VectorChaos posted...

The victims were stabbed and had their hearts ripped out. Thomas told police he put the hearts in his pocket, and took them home, where he placed them in a plastic bag and then threw them in the trash.

Thomas stabbed himself a few times before he walked to the Sherman Police Department and told them that he had murdered the trio. He claimed God told him to commit the killings.

He sounds mentally unfit for existence

Seriously. He will undoubtedly try to hurt others in prison and himself too. Plus he is fucking blind and completely insane. Seriously he literally eats his own major organs and killed a baby.

Killing him is the merciful and practical thing to do.
---

BillWardsPants posted...

LOL at finding someone mentally unfit for execution. Like, his life is suddenly found valuable.

What a strange post
---