Andrea Yates case: Yates found not guilty by reason of insanity
A Texas jury found that Andrea Yates was insane when she drowned her five children in a bathtub five years ago, and the panel acquitted her of capital murder in the deaths. "She needs help," the jury ...
Decades After Andrea Yates Killed Her 5 Children, Her Lawyer Places Flowers on Their Grave (Exclusive)
Andrea Yates was experiencing postpartum psychosis when she drowned her children in 2001. She was remanded in 2007 to a ...
Inmate who had ‘seen the devil and the antichrist a thousand times’ tortured cellmate to death, lawsuit says
An inmate at a California jail was sexually assaulted and choked to death by his cellmate as the victim pressed a panic ...
Jail guards ignored screams for help as man tortured cellmate to death, lawsuit says
Brandon Yates’s parents are suing San Diego County and its sheriff a year after a cellmate allegedly killed their son while ...
Ole Miss is keeping court storming alive and well
Ole Miss beat No. 4 Tennessee on Tuesday in a close 78-76 game that the Rebels barely eked out. After the win, the fans ...
Back-to-back death penalty trials anticipated for Xavier Davis, Oscar Rosales
Prosecutors are gearing up to try their first death penalty trials against Xavier Davis and Oscar Rosales under District ...
Crime and Public Safety
The man who killed Brandon Yates was known to be violent, and was already classified as “keep separate” — not to be placed in a cell with another person.
For more than an hour, he called for help as he was tortured to death in jail. ‘No one came,’ his family says.
The man who killed Brandon Yates was known to be violent, and was already classified as “keep separate” — not to be placed in ...
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Forensic Psychiatry at the Frontiers: The Ever-Evolving Challenges of Michael Welner
Andrea Yates, the one-time Houston mother of five ... founder Roy Speer cases both featured Dr. Welner teaching the court of the competency of each to make transaction decisions.