André Thomas’ lawyers are pursuing a last-ditch effort to save his life.
André Thomas has no eyes. One he gouged out in 2004, in jail, days after he murdered his estranged wife, Laura Boren, their son, and her daughter. The second he pulled out and ate in 2008, while on death row in Texas.and doesn’t respond with a “sharp intake of breath,” Robin Maher, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, told me. Thomas’ lawyers have called him one of the “most mentally ill prisoners in Texas history,” a distinction that seems to unite observers too.
In setting the conditions for Thomas’ evaluation, the judge ignored the request for him to be unmedicated. As it stands now, he will stay on his treatment. According to court records submitted by his attorney in July, when asked what would happen if the state did execute him, Thomas said, “They can’t kill me, that’s the thing. They can’t.” He reportedly posited he would end up with brain damage but wouldn’t die. “I’d be locked,” he continued, “inside a room inside my
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