Attorneys for a mentally ill Texas death row prisoner, along with faith leaders and mental health professionals are working to stop his April 5 execution, saying he'll never be sufficiently competent to be put to death.
This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Texas death row inmate Andre Thomas. Attorneys for the mentally ill prisoner, along with faith leaders and mental health professionals are working to stop his April 5, 2023, execution, saying he'll never be competent enough to be put to death.
Thomas was sentenced to death for killing the little girl after jurors rejected his insanity defense. Prosecutors argued that he knew his conduct was wrong and exacerbated his mental condition with drug use. He has spent the last 15 years at a unit south of Houston for the state’s most mentally ill prisoners. The heavily medicated Thomas, now 39, is also blind. Twice since the killings,, eating one of them to ensure that the government could not hear his thoughts, his attorneys said.
But authorities say Thomas’ victims and their families should not be forgotten in this debate and that, his execution should go forward. The killings of Boren and her children shocked Sherman, a city of about 45,000 residents 65 miles north of Dallas. His attorneys say prison records show that as recently as December, Thomas “still hallucinate constantly,” including “voices ‘from a spiritual prison’ and seeking ‘angels.’”Thomas’ attorneys have said his trial was also problematic because jurors who said they opposed interracial marriage were allowed to serve. Thomas is Black and his estranged wife was white. The U.S. Supreme Court last year declined to hear an appeal on this issue.
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