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Conviction (s) November 3, 2005. Criminal charge. Capital murder. Andre Lee Thomas (born March 17, 1983) is an American convicted murderer and death row inmate known for removing both of his eyeballs in separate incidents and ingesting one of them. In 2004, Thomas killed his estranged wife Laura Boren, his four-year-old son and her one-year-old ...
Allan B. Polunsky Unit (TL, formerly the Terrell Unit) is a prison in West Livingston, unincorporated Polk County, Texas, United States, located approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Livingston along Farm to Market Road 350. [1][2] The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) operates the facility. The unit houses the State of Texas ...
Since being sentenced in 1999, Joseph Corcoran had spent more than two decades on death row at Indiana State Prison while his appeals against the death penalty, which had been vacated more than once before its re-instatement, were ongoing. At the time of Corcoran's sentencing in 1999, 45 death row inmates were on death row at Indiana State ...
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder [17][7] characterized by hallucinations (typically hearing voices), delusions, disorganized thinking and behavior, [10] and flat or inappropriate affect. [7] Symptoms develop gradually and typically begin during young adulthood and are never resolved. [3][10] There is no objective diagnostic test; diagnosis is ...
Edwin Fuller Torrey (born September 6, 1937), is an American psychiatrist and schizophrenia researcher. He is associate director of research at the Stanley Medical Research Institute [1] (SMRI) and founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC), a nonprofit organization whose principal activity is promoting the passage and implementation of outpatient commitment laws and civil commitment laws ...
Forensic psychiatry. James Paul Grigson Jr. (January 30, 1932 – June 3, 2004), [3] nicknamed "Dr. Death" by some press accounts, [4][5][6] was a Texas forensic psychiatrist who testified in 167 capital trials, nearly all of which resulted in death sentences. [7] He was exposed as a charlatan [8][9] and expelled by the American Psychiatric ...
As of July 1, 2024, there were 2,213 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
People with mental illnesses are over-represented in jail and prison populations in the United States relative to the general population. [1][2][3] There are three times as many mentally ill people in jails and prisons than in hospitals in the United States. [1] Mentally ill people are subjected to solitary confinement at disproportionate rates ...