A Tennessee dying row inmate reduce off his personal penis and slit his personal wrists with a hidden razor after asking jail officers to be positioned on suicide watch, in accordance with to his lawyer.
Henry Eugene Hodges, who’s been on dying row for the 1990 homicide of a phone repairman, had the bloody meltdown earlier this month. He did so allegedly over a meals bundle.
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Prison employees refused to let him have a particular bundle as a result of he was one month in need of a required six months of excellent conduct, his legal professional Kelley Henry instructed the Associated Press.
A corrections officer determined to cease feeding him an an effort to get him to cease smearing feces round his cell, prompting Hodges to chop his personal wrists with a razor he had hidden in his cell on the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, she mentioned.
Sex-crazed ‘homosexual’ triple-murderer on dying row, Henry Eugene Hodges, 56, hacks off his penis with damaged glass and razor blade after he is denied particular meals bundle.
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He then allegedly requested to be placed on suicide watch on the jail’s infirmary.
However, a “high-ranking” jail officer instructed the nurse treating Hodges that he was manipulating them and might be positioned on suicide watch when he was again in his cell.
It was there the place he later reduce off his personal penis.
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Doctors have been miraculously in a position to reattach his penis at a hospital, earlier than he was went again to jail, the place he has remained restrained and confined to a skinny mattress on a concrete block, in accordance with his lawyer.
He was initially positioned in four-point restraints, however was in a position to free his hand and rip out his catheter, prompting officers to put him in six-point restraints, she instructed the AP.
He finally agreed to take his medicine earlier than being returned to four-point restraints, nevertheless he hasn’t been allowed to go away his mattress or stroll. He has additionally been on a starvation strike.
Hodges had beforehand been recognized with bipolar dysfunction blended sort with psychotic episodes, his lawyer went on to say.
“He needs competent mental health care. Surely the prison can find a place to put him where he is not a danger to himself or others and does not have to be tied down like an animal,” she instructed the AP.
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Henry added that she wants to speak to basic counsel Debbie Inglis, who’s been out on depart. The Tennessee Department of Correction didn’t instantly return a request for remark from the AP.
In 1992, Hodges was sentenced to dying for murdering Ronald Bassett in May 1990.
He was additionally convicted of one other homicide in Georgia, the place he killed a North Carolina chemical engineer at an Atlanta resort.