One Tennessee The death row inmate cut his own penis and slashed his wrists with a razor after asking prison officials to be watched for suicide, according to his lawyer.
Henry Eugene Hodges, who was sentenced to death for the 1990 murder of a telephone repairman, sparked a bloody scuffle earlier this month. He did so allegedly because of a food package.
Prison officials say
Prison staff refused to let him have a special package because he lacked six months of good conduct, his lawyer Kelley Henry told Related press.
She said a corrections officer decided to stop feeding him to try to get him to stop smearing feces around his cell, prompting Hodges to cut his own wrists with a razor he hid in his cell. at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institute in Nashville, she said.
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He is then said to have requested to be monitored for suicide at the prison infirmary.
However, a “senior” prison officer told the nurse treating Hodges that he was manipulating them and could be placed on suicide watch when he returned to his cell.
That’s where he later amputated his own penis.
Doctors re-link member of Hodges, with prison staff who need to strengthen his restraint
According to the lawyer, doctors were able to miraculously reattach his penis at a hospital, before he returned to prison, where he remained confined and confined to a thin mattress. on a concrete block.
He was initially held for four points, but was able to release his hand and remove his catheter, prompting officials to place him in the six-point penalty box, she told the AP.
He eventually agreed to take medication before being put back on the four-point restriction regimen, however he was not allowed to get out of bed or walk. He also went on a hunger strike.
His attorney said Hodges had previously been diagnosed with mixed bipolar disorder with psychotic episodes.
“He needs competent mental health care. Surely the prison can find a place to put him in where he doesn’t pose a danger to himself or others and doesn’t have to be tied up like an animal,” she told the AP.
Hodges is facing death for the murder of a telephone repairman, a chemical engineer in two separate murders
Henry added that she needs to speak to general counsel Debbie Inglis, who has been placed on leave. The Tennessee Bureau of Corrections did not immediately return a request for comment from the AP.
In 1992, Hodges was sentenced to death for the May 1990 murder of Ronald Bassett.
He was also convicted of another murder in Georgia, where he killed a North Carolina chemical engineer at an Atlanta hotel.
