Texas death row inmate pulls out good eye, eats it
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:12 amHorrifying....
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articl ... 09-ON.html
HOUSTON - A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye and told authorities he ate it.
...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.
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.
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articl ... 09-ON.html
HOUSTON - A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye and told authorities he ate it.
...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.
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.