O.M.G. A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problem pulled his eyeball and then ate it!
Before his trial (of which he was convicted and sentenced to death), he had pulled out an eyeball (but didn't eat it). The judge had declared him mentally fit for 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."
This sounds like the kind of guy who would turn out to be a horrible killer.
It seems like he was trying to act insane in order to get what he wanted. If he was truly insane, he'd pull out his eye and eat it without any justifications.
But what do I know.
Lew
I mean damn, that takes some crazy ass balls of steel to even think about doing something like that.
UGH Making my own eyeballs hurt just thinking about it... BLEH
If he's insane, then he's too dangerous to himself or other to continue living. If he IS plotting, then he is WAY too dangerous to continue living.
Continue with the execution; we don't need something like that living with the human race....
Also, the prison officer found him. If he wanted attention he would have done it in front of people.
i am surprised that no one has questioned whether it is right to condemn a man like him to die. truly i wonder if he had received care before things got this bad whether he would have done the things that got him on death row.
He's deeply sick and probably can't ever be well. Regular prison isn't the spot for him. And no, it's not okay to kill people who are so insane. They are dangerous and need to be isolated from society and protected from themselves, but obviously don't have the capacity to understand societal rules and should not be punished as if they do, i.e., with execution.
haha.
Whats worse? I can't stop thinking about how gross it is. I think I need to go vomit. :(
I agree with just a guy in thinking it's kinda neat in a “Dude WTF” way.
And on topic poor fella must be blind now, unless they put the eye back in...
Holy crap.