Now he has no eyes.

HOUSTON – A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye and told authorities he ate it.

Andre Thomas, 25, was arrested for the fatal stabbings of his estranged wife, their young son and her 13-month-old daughter in March 2004. Their hearts also had been ripped out. He was convicted and condemned for the infant’s death.

While in the Grayson County Jail in Sherman, Thomas plucked out his right eye before his trial later in 2004. A judge subsequently ruled he was competent to stand trial.

On Dec. 9, 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. 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.“

Thanks(?) to Slog Tipper Wesley, who added, “Love your posts! Here is more fodder for you!” Apparently I am now the Stranger’s Chief Fucked-Up Eyeball Correspondent. Hooray?

Lindy West was born an unremarkable female baby in Seattle, Washington. The former Stranger writer covered movies, movie stars, exclamation points, lady stuff, large frightening fish, and much, much more....

35 replies on “One-Eyed Man Removes, Eats Remaining Eye”

  2. suckers; fell for the old ‘pluck and eat your last eye to prove insanity’ ruse. now all the one eyed death row inmates will be trying it…

  3. too damn funny. the only thing funnier would be when they strap his blind murdering ass to the gurney and see the quizzical look on his face before he burns in hell.

  6. Lindy, here’s another story of detached organs for you, although in this case, it’s an anthropomorphized cartoon uterus toy recall:

    http://iheartguts.com/recall/index.htm

    “In an effort to ensure our plush products exceed federal and international safety standards, we learned the 2008 Plush Uterus has failed a pull test. The ovaries may detach when pulled, becoming a potential small part choking hazard for young children. No one has been harmed…”

  10. @8: Yes they do. HE PULLED THAT ONE OUT TOO.

    “While in the Grayson County Jail in Sherman, Thomas plucked out his right eye before his trial later in 2004.”

  15. Now Lindy, I was merely complementing you and thought that the crazyness of this article match the general theme of your posts that I greatly enjoy reading.

    This does not make you the Chief Fucked-Up Eyeball Correspondent…just the Chief Fucked-Up Everything Correspondent! 🙂

  17. This is the sort of thing that used to show up on the “Germany or Florida” game on Loveline when Adam Corolla was still on.

    Yeah. That was before The End sucked as much as it does now.

  21. Not to be a complete dick, but are we planning on rehabilitating this guy?

    Sometimes (certainly not in its current form; form = death penalty) you gotta put a living thing down. Why is someone like Chuck Manson still alive?

  22. @ 21,

    Rehabilitate? Are you joking? I don’t really care for most of Texas, Austin is okay, but I think I’m going to have to go with them on this one; put the rabid dog down. If this guy were a rabid pitbull, nobody would have any problem with euthanasia. But because he is a hairless chimp (Homo sapiens sapiens), “Oh, No! We can’t kill him! that would be murder! He just needs love and understanding!”

    Piffle.

  24. @23: It’s named after Texas governor Beauford Jester, who reformed the prison system back in the 1940s.

    But you knew that, right?

  27. @25 But is Lindy the Chief Fucked-Up Everything Correspondent? As much as I adore every one of her posts, I tend to think that this is Schmader territory.

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