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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 ...
The US Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the right to sue over the state's laws governing DNA testing. The majority opinion was written by Justice Sonia ...
The Supreme Court granted Texas death row inmate Ruben Gutierrez the right to sue over DNA testing laws as he argues he shouldn't be given the death penalty for the 1998 murder he was convicted of.
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision on Thursday, determined a Texas death row inmate is entitled to contest the state's restrictive DNA testing law in federal court.
For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman.
The justices left in place a Texas appeals court ruling that upheld the murder conviction and death sentence for Areli Escobar, even though Escobar’s case is similar to that of an Oklahoma man ...
The “Miserable Spectacle” of Executing People With Serious Mental Illness André Thomas gouged out both his eyes. Can he still be given the death penalty?
Read about Andre Thomas, a death row inmate who gouged out his eyes while jailed for killing his estranged wife, 4-year-old son and her 13-month-old daughter, being granted a delayed execution.
A Texas death row inmate who killed three people, including two kids, and later gouged out both of his eyes and ate one was granted a delayed execution. Andre Thomas, 39, was sentenced to death ...
HOUSTON — Next month's scheduled execution of a Texas death row inmate, whose attorneys say gouged out both of his eyes - each a separate incident - because of severe mental illness, was delayed ...
Next month's scheduled execution of a Texas death row inmate, whose lawyers say gouged out both of his eyes because of severe mental illness, has been delayed.
Next month’s scheduled execution of a Texas death row inmate, whose attorneys say gouged out both of his eyes — each a separate incident — because of severe mental illness, was delayed by a ...