Texas Death Row Inmate Eats Own Eye
January 9th, 2009 by Alex
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!After a solid 12+ years of browsing the internet I’ve seen some pretty messed up things. Safe to say it takes a decent amount to shock me these days, but I’ll be damned if the Texas prison system didn’t just make me choke on a Snapple.
Andre Thomas, a 25 year-old death row inmate with a history of drug & alcohol abuse, pulled his eye out of his head and ate it.
Yea, you just read that correctly. It was his eye. He ate it.
The worst part? This is the second (and last) time he’s done this to himself. Thomas was convicted and sentenced to death row for gruesomely murdering his wife, son and baby daughter – all found with their hearts removed. His defense argued insanity and mental illness, hoping to get him placed in a psychiatric ward instead of prison.
Looks like that’s not going to be an issue anymore, Thomas was shipped to the Jester Unit immediately after treatment of his self-inflicted wound. When the public sees a brutal murder or tragic event take place and during trial the defense goes for an insanity plea, the main reaction is skepticism. “Oh, this crazy asshole is trying to get off easy.”
Maybe without that bias this deeply troubled man would’ve had been able to avoid his demons. This is just one whole barrel of fucked up, a dead family and a blind psychiatric patient. Welcome to Texas.
