NBC Bay Area /

News

Eat This, Not That Death row inmate treated after goughing eye, then eating it.

Updated 4:30 PM PDT, Fri, Jan 9, 2009

 

Enlarge Photo

Texas death row inmate Andre Thomas pulled his eye out and ate it.

A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems gouged out his only good eye.

Andre Thomas told officers that he ate it.

The 25-year-old inmate was on death row for the fatal stabbing of his 13-month-old daughter, Leyha Marie Hughes.

He was also accused of fatally stabbing his 20-year-old estranged wife Laura Christine Boren and their 4-year-old son Andre Lee in March 2004, then ripping out the hearts of all three.

Thomas was treated at East Texas Medical Center in Tyler after the December 9 incident.

Then he was transferred and remains at a prison psychiatric facility near Houston.

Comments (12)

Sort by: Most Recent | Oldest
  • hyperbole Tuesday, Jan 13 at 2:18 PM FLAG COMMENT Like I said in the other article, maybe he just didn't see eye to eye with them................
  • Will Smith Monday, Jan 12 at 10:32 AM FLAG COMMENT I think they should keep him alive for awile to see if he will eat anything else. I bet he cant eat his whole arm without throwing up.
  • Reason is crazy too! Monday, Jan 12 at 7:51 AM FLAG COMMENT Reason- Misunderstood????? When you rip out an infants heart straight out of their chest, I think misunderstood is quite the understatement don't you?? Misunderstood is rebelling asd a tennager, not killing a 21 month old. Looks like a nice enough fellow?!?!?! He's murdered 3 people, 2 of which were little kids!!! If you think this is just misunderstood, maybe you need to look a little closer at who you are.
  • Scott Sunday, Jan 11 at 11:50 AM FLAG COMMENT I was born without an eye. I have plenty of spare artificial eyes if he would like one.
  • marcy Saturday, Jan 10 at 2:27 PM FLAG COMMENT more tax dollars being wasted on this fool. they should have been killed him.

Post a Comment

Name


Comment - You have 2000 characters left

Enter both words below, separated by a space, in the field located to the lower right. Can't read the words below? Try different words or an audio captcha. What's this?