Hodges, sentenced to death in 1992, also smeared feces on the wall of his cell.
severed his own penis with a hidden razor after being placed on suicide watch for slitting his wrists following a disagreement with jail officials over a food package delivery, his attorney says.for the 1990 killing of a telephone repairman, mutilated himself by slicing off his own penis earlier this month after a disagreement with jail officials who didn't allow him to receive a special food package he had ordered, according to his attorney Kelley Henry.
Hodges was taken to the hospital’s infirmary where he asked to be put on suicide watch. A "high-ranking correctional officer" told the person treating Hodges that he was manipulating them and could be put on suicide watch back in his cell, Henry said. He was taken back to his cell where there was broken glass from a window he had broken as well as other razors that he had hidden.
When he got back to his cell, Hodges severed his own penis, Henry said, adding that the back and forth with jail officials happened within a two-hour period.