Between 2001 and 2004, four Texas women became famous — notorious, actually — for the deaths they inflicted on their children. Two opted for drowning, one grabbed a knife and the other used a heavy ...

The adoption by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals this year of the insanity test recommended by the American Law Institute and the recent debate in Congress on the Durham insanity test used by the ...

NEW YORK — As the murder trial of a nanny who fatally stabbed two small children in her care entered its fourth week Monday, the jury has begun wrestling with one of the most controversial, ...

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that a state need not adopt an incapacity test that turns on a defendant’s ability to recognize that his crime was morally wrong in order to comply with the ...

PONTIAC, Mich. (WXYZ) — The high-profile criminal case against Ethan Crumbley may never get to a jury. While his attorneys have filed notice of an insanity defense ...

STUART — Attorneys representing murder suspect Austin Harrouff in court Thursday debated Florida's criminal insanity test, referred to as the M'Naghten Rule, and how it relates to his mental state at ...

A horrific murder occurs. The defendant is caught and pleads not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI). If the plea is successful, is someone getting away with murder without legal consequences? Well, ...

This week, the attorney for Andrea Yates, the Houston woman accused of killing her five children, announced he would probably seek an insanity defense for his client. Meanwhile, Texas Gov. Rick Perry ...