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   Was Andrea Yates convicted by reason of insanity?

   • A jury in Houston today found Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2001 drowning of her children. It was the second time Ms. Yates had been tried for the deaths of her children, in a long-running case that has highlighted the issues of postpartum depression and the insanity defense in the Texas legal system.

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   Who is Andrea Yates?

   • Andrea Yates, the Houston woman convicted in 2002 of killing her five children, was found not guilty by reason of insanity in a retrial after her original convictions were overturned earlier this year. Shortly after the July 26 verdict, Yates was transferred to Vernon State Hospital, a maximum-security state mental health facility in north Texas.

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   How did Andrea Yates die?

   • Andrea Yates, who was heavily medicated with a cocktail of antipsychotic drugs during the trial, had attempted suicide twice and was hospitalized several times before she drowned the children. She confessed to killing the children but pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

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   Does Andrea Yates case still resonate?

   • Abclocal.go.com. January 26, 2007. Archived from the original on October 19, 2007. Retrieved March 5, 2012. ^ Lewis, Brooke A. (June 17, 2016). "Fifteen years later, Andrea Yates case still resonates". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved October 12, 2017. ^ Archived January 2, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy.

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   What if Andrea Yates doesn't meet the test of insanity?

   • "If this woman doesn't meet the test of insanity in this state, then nobody does," said Andrea Yates's defense attorney George Parnham to the jury as they prepared to deliberate as to whether his client was guilty or insane.

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   Will Andrea Yates ever be released?

   • Her attorneys say it is highly unlikely she will ever be released, and her case will remain under court supervision. "Five years ago, Andrea Yates called police to inform them of what she had done to her five children," prosecutor Joe Owmby said in a post-verdict statement. "It was no mystery then who ended their lives.

   Andrea Yates case: Yates found not guilty by reason of insanity

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   Mar 13, 2002 · HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- A Texas jury found Andrea Yates guilty of capital murder Tuesday, rejecting her claim that she was insane when she drowned her five children in a bathtub last summer....

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   Aug 18, 2006 · Andrea Yates, the Houston woman convicted in 2002 of killing her five children, was found not guilty by reason of insanity in a retrial after her original convictions were overturned earlier this year. Shortly after the July 26 verdict, Yates was transferred to Vernon State Hospital, a maximum-security state mental health facility in north Texas.

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   Yates was convicted of capital murder, but the jury refused the death penalty option. She was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after forty years. The verdict was overturned on appeal, in light of false testimony by one of the supposed expert psychiatric witnesses.

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   Of the 454 condemned prisoners on Texas's death row today, 154, or 29.5 percent (and three of the seven women, or 42.8 percent), were sent there by Harris County juries. To make matters even worse for Yates, Prosecutor Joe Ownby claimed he had God on his side.

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   Dec 11, 2007 · 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.

8. www.nytimes.com › 2006/07/26 › usYates Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity - The New York Times

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   Jul 26, 2006 · In 2002, a jury rejected Mrs. Yates’s insanity defense, found her guilty of capital murder, and sentenced her to life in prison for the drowning of three of her children. She has not been tried...

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   Jul 27, 2006 · (CNN) -- A jury on Wednesday found Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity of drowning her five children in a bathtub five years ago. The verdict, reached after nearly 13 hours of...