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HOUSTON (AP) — 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 judge on Tuesday.

The execution of Andre Thomas has been delayed after a judge withdrew the order following requests from his attorneys for additional time to prepare for a competency hearing.

His attorney told Newsweek that Andre Thomas is "one of the most mentally ill prisoners in Texas history."

Andre Thomas was sentenced for the 2014 killing of his estranged wife, their 4-year-old son and her 13-month-old daughter.

Andre Thomas, 39, was set to be executed on 5 April for killing his estranged wife and her two children in 2004

The scheduled execution of a Texas death row inmate, whose attorneys say gouged out both of his eyes, was delayed by a judge on Tuesday.

Karen Swallow Prior considers the death penalty in light of Andre Thomas—a Texas man with severe mental illness and convicted of murder.

Convicted killer Andre Thomas of Sherman has received another reprieve from execution. A court condemned him for the 2004 stabbing deaths of his estranged wife, the couple's four-year-old son, and her one-year-old daughter. The court's decision gives defense attorneys more time to prove that Thomas

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A Grayson County, Texas court has withdrawn the April 5, 2023 execution date for Andre Thomas (pictured), a seriously mentally ill prisoner whose legal…