Andre Thomas' clemency request comes as Democrats promote legislation that would make...
Texas death row inmate Andre Thomas is ‘one of the most mentally ill prisoners in Texas history,’ says his longtime lawyer, Maurie Levin. A request for clemency to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for Thomas comes as Democrats promote legislation that would make people like him ineligible for execution in the future.Lawyers for a man on Texas death row who while incarcerated tore out both of his own eyes and ate one of them filed a petition to Gov.
Levin said the state has resisted legal motions for lawyers to access Thomas’ medical records to try to prove his insanity in court, so a reprieve in this case would grant lawyers more time to argue before the courts that the man is unfit for execution. “I think that right now what we’re talking about is the undeniable reality that he is permanently mentally ill. And we’re talking about a question of mercy which is very different from the legal standard. So we are hopeful that the governor and the board will exercise mercy,” Levin said.Thomas' clemency request also comes as a Dallas Democrat is once again promoting legislation in the Texas House that would make people like him ineligible for capital convictions in the first place.
“Severely mentally ill people had no choice of becoming ill, their moral culpability is far less than that of a defendant who has no mental impairment and who was aware and intended to commit capital murder. This bill will allow a jury to consider these important facts,” Rose said in a 2019 floor speech as she explained the bill's purpose.
Faith leaders and mental health advocates joined Thomas’ lawyers in a Wednesday morning news conference. Zoom call discussing his clemency application were faith leaders and mental health advocates. Greg Hansch, of the Texas chapter of the National Alliance for Mental Illness, called for the Legislature to support Rose’s bill. Hansch noted that Thomas struggled with severe mental illness throughout his life, attempting suicide when he was just 10.
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