People Acquitted by Reason of Insanity

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Ed Gein, William Chester Minor, Andrea Yates, Daniel Sickles, John Hinckley, Jr., Harry Kendall Thaw, Daniel M'Naghten, Ernst August Wagner, Howard Unruh, Filip Konowal, John Flammang Schrank, Albert Tirrell, Dimitri Tsafendas, Adolph B. Spreckels, George Roden, Michael Hayes, Juan Mar a Fern ndez y Krohn, Richard Lawrence, Dena Schlosser, Tony Kiritsis, James Hadfield, I. Kathleen Hagen, Sanna Sillanp, Francisco Garcia Escalero, Thornton Jenkins Hains, John Frith, James Swann, Edward Oxford, Deanna Laney murders, Daniel Rakowitz, Roderick McLean. Excerpt: Andrea Yates (born Andrea Pia Kennedy July 2, 1959) is a former Houston, Texas resident who killed her five young children on June 20, 2001 by drowning them in the bathtub in her house. She had been suffering for some time with very severe postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. Her case placed the M'Naghten Rules, a legal test for sanity, under close public scrutiny in the United States. Yates's 2002 conviction of capital murder and sentence to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years was later overturned on appeal. On July 26, 2006, a Texas jury found that Yates was not guilty by reason of insanity. She was consequently committed by the court to the North Texas State Hospital, Vernon Campus, a high-security mental health facility in Vernon, Texas, where she received medical treatment and was a roommate of Dena Schlosser, another woman who committed filicide by killing her infant daughter. In January 2007, Yates was moved to a low security state mental hospital in Kerrville, Texas. Andrea Yates was born in Houston to Jutta Karin Koehler, a German immigrant, and Andrew Emmett Kennedy, whose parents were born in Ireland. She is the youngest of five children and was raised in a Catholic household. She graduated from Milby High School in...