A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye and told authorities he ate it.25-year-old Andre Thomas had been convicted and condemned to death in 2004 for stabbing his estranged wife and two children and then ripping their hearts out. While in the Grayson County jail awaiting trial, Thomas plucked out his right eye before his trial. A judge subsequently ruled he was competent to stand trial.
In the most recent incident, 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.
"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."
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