Texas Death Row Inmate Andre Thomas Pulls Remaining Eyeball Out, Eats It

To say that Andre Thomas is disturbed is redundant—he’s on death row for killing his estranged wife, and two kids, ages 4 and 13-months. But when this 2004 picture was taken, he had recently pulled out his right eyeball while being held in Sherman, Texas for the murders. Well, last week Thomas finished the job, and added a little bit of pizzaz to the proceedings. While in his cell, he yanked out his left eyeball and ate the motherfucking eye.

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.”

Yeah, we don’t need a court or judge to tell us that. Oh Texas, you’re taking the death penalty to a whole ‘nother level, ain’t ya? You’re the first to send a 12-year-old kid to death, and now you’re going to have the first person on death row to kill himself via plucking. How cutting edge… or pulling edge, if you will.
Texas death row inmate in psych facility after eating his eyeball [Dallas Morning News]
Image [AP]