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"Texas judge: Eye-plucking inmate 'crazy' but sane"

By Douglas A. Berman

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The title of this post is the headline of this AP report on an eye-popping case previously discussed here (sorry, couldn't resist the easy joke).  Here are the particulars: A condemned Texas inmate who removed his only eye and ate it in a bizarre outburst several months ago on death row is "crazy," yet sane under state law, a judge wrote in an appellate court ruling Wednesday that rejected his appeals. Andre Thomas raised 44 claims in his petition to the state's highest criminal court, challenging his conviction and death sentence for the murder of his estranged wife's 13-month-old daughter five years ago in Grayson County in North Texas.... The nine-member Texas Court of Criminal Appeals unanimously upheld Thomas' conviction and punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 19, 2009 (boomark / email).

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