Thomas’ attorneys appealed saying that some members of the jury that sentenced him had expressed racist views.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review the case of Texas death row inmate Andre Thomas.The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request Tuesday to take up the case of Texas, whose lawyers argued that members of the jury that convicted him of killing his wife and two children had expressed racist views.
He stabbed and mutilated his estranged wife, Laura Boren, 20; their 4-year-old son, Andre Jr.; and her 1-year-old daughter, Leyha Hughes, in 2004 in Sherman. He was found guilty about a year later. Thomas, who is blind and had gouged his eyes, was not a danger to anyone, his lawyer Maurie Levin said Tuesday.
Thomas had schizophrenia and active psychosis, first hearing voices and attempting to kill himself at 10 years old, Levin said. He tried twice again in the three weeks before the murders, and he also sought help at hospitals that noted he was “experiencing delusions, religious hallucinations, and hearing voices,” Levin said.
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