A bill before the Kentucky General Assembly would change the state’s insanity defense law, and some legal professionals have ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 Supreme Court struggled Wednesday with whether Arizona gave a fair trial to a schizophrenic teenager who killed a police officer nearly six years ago, in a case that could be a major test of state ...

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 ...

My daughter was charged for killing her live-in partner inside a rented condo unit. Although she admitted the killing, she interposed the exempting circumstance of insanity. Notwithstanding, the court ...

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 ...

At the beginning of the year, two major trials featuring the insanity defense were set to demonstrate on a grand stage how we as a country perceive the defense. The first of those cases was the ...