Texas Death Row Inmate Pulls Out Eye, Eats It

[Penis Aficionado]

The mental-health system in Texas is barbaric -- jail serves as a sort of psychiatric emergency room. A federal report came out recently to the effect that dozens of people have died in state-run psychiatric hospitals (bizarrely called "schools") from entirely preventable causes.

 

[D_alex8]

Thomas was heard to remark, "Needed garlic."

If thine ail* offend thee,...

*this bon mot appears courtesy of 'French Puns on a Budget'

 

[B_Hickboy]

Good lick, son!

 

[HellsKitchenmanNYC]

This has got to be one of the craziest stories I've heard in awhile. An to think he coulda had a V 8!

 

[jeff black]

OK, I'm going to be flamed for this, but why is he still alive? Is death row, death never?

Because, for some crazy reason, the world seems to think it is better for people on death row to suffer a few years before they get killed.

As far as the eyes go... but he didn't kill his father or marry his mother...


Anyway... it's sad that it has come to this. He should have been helped a long time ago already. Clearly someone like that has to be helped, that judge should lose his job.

I'm gonna agree with this. Anyone who can do such a thing... well, they really should have been looked at long before it escaladed to "children with hearts ripped out". That's just vicious.

 

[Principessa]

NJ you sure find the coolest articles, there is real meaning in it though besides the horrible deaths, This man needed fixin long before he killed his family. To many people like this slip through the cracks and wind up killing loved ones.

Almost every school shooting that has occurred in this country could have been avoided if the perpetrator had received the proper psychiatric care. :frown1:

Texas doesn't believe in mental illness. That state once executed a man whose IQ was so low that he worried about wrapping-up his last meal (a sandwich) so he could eat it when he got back from his execution.

There's no compassion in the Texan justice system. Everything is black and white.

That's just sad; :frown1: but what was his crime? Crazy or not he committed a crime. A low IQ isn't the same as being schizophrenic, there is nothing they could do to make him smarter. Many people with mental health issues can be helped through therapy and medication. I don't know the particulars but it sounds like there was no way to prevent that guy from killing again because he doesn't understand the concept.

As far as the eyes go... but he didn't kill his father or marry his mother...

Anyway... it's sad that it has come to this. He should have been helped a long time ago already. Clearly someone like that has to be helped, that judge should lose his job.

Is that what is meant by the term criminally insane? At what point is a person more criminal than insane? And vice versa? How do you decide who gets the death penalty, a life sentence, or goes into a psychiatric care facility?

what the fuck they don't got any video of it?

Why would you want to see that?!? :yikes:

 

[Skull Mason]

Why would you want to see that?!? :yikes:

You wouldn't?

 

[D_but wait you also get]

damn...did anyone tell him he gets his choice for his last meal?

lmfao!

 

[Gl3nn]

Is that what is meant by the term criminally insane? At what point is a person more criminal than insane? And vice versa? How do you decide who gets the death penalty, a life sentence, or goes into a psychiatric care facility?

Well, first of all: abolish the death penalty. We're not in the medievals anymore, a little but of humane behaviour won't harm.

And death penalty is too easy. If they're in prison for life, then they have to think about what they did and let's be honoust... in prison for life and no chance on getting free will do a lot of harm to the person because he'll lose everything he ever had and loved, and he knows that. While death penalty is over in a minute or so. Of course it has to be a good prison where the 'inmates' don't call the shots, as I have seen in a couple of american prisons in documentaries. Anyway...

Psychological tests have to be done to determine if someone has mental issues. And if so... they have to go to psychiatric care facilities. Heck, the guy might not even realise what he did is wrong.

 

[Not_Punny]

Well, I think he would have eaten his eye regardless of being in prison for life or on death row.

Psychiatric care doesn't cure the truly insane. Never happened.

And just check out the many public/school shooting incidents where the perpetrator already WAS undergoing psychiatric care.

Psychiatric care is NOT a guarantee that a someone is not going to go ballistic.

Here are just a FEW of the many crazy people who committed murder while underdoing psychiatric care:

The "Russell killer"

School shooting Pennsylvania, March 2001: 14 year old girl on Paxil (Seroxat) shoots and wounds classmate.

School shooting Illinois, February 2008: 6 dead, 15 wounded. The killer was in withdrawal from Prozac.

School shooting Minnesota, March 2005: 10 dead, 7 wounded. The killer was on Prozac, of which the dosage was increased one week before the rampage.

School shooting Minnesota, March 2005: 10 dead, 7 wounded. The killer was on Prozac, of which the dosage was increased one week before the rampage.

Article on rate of teen crime

Article about some of England's famous insane murderers and most famous "mental hospital prison"


One study, done by two psychiatrists, found that ten percent of murders are done by psychotics. (The article didn't mention what percent of those were undergoing treatment.)

Furthermore, studies done (in Israel) on how accurately psychiatrists can predict violent and non-violent behavior in patients shows that their predictions were erratic, varying from 37% to 80% accuracy.

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So, what are we going to do? Incarcerate everyone who is seriously mentally ill?

Bedlam reigns.

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[Gl3nn]

I didn't say they could be cured. But if they had no idea of what they were doing, then you can't condemn them to death. They should be put in a psychiatric facility so they can't harm anyone else (or themselves).

And it's sad to read about those school shootings, but 90% of those wouldn't have happened if it wasn't so damn easy to get guns in the US.
I hope they soon realise that they have to make it difficult to get a gun.
Never heard of a school shooting in my country... it's very difficult to get a gun here.