Revisit the Andrea Yates case and the mental health failures behind the 2001 drowning deaths of her five children, explored ...

Explore the tragic story of Andrea Yates, the Houston mother who drowned her five children in 2001 amid severe postpartum ...

ON JUNE 20, 2001, Andrea Pia Yates killed her five young children and set off a wildly huge news story. As the whole English-speaking world surely knows by now, Mrs. Yates and her defenders claimed ...

Lawyers for Andrea Pia Yates, the Clear Lake mother accused of drowning her five children in a bathtub, have asked the court to rule unconstitutional a Texas statute that prevents jurors from being ...

Family members of Andrea Pia Yates, the Clear Lake mother accused of drowning her five children, have been notified by prosecutors that they may be called to testify at a competency hearing next week.

Several states are considering a ban on capital punishment for people with mental illnesses or brain injuries. By Shaila Dewan Judge Morris B Hoffman and Prof Stephen J Morse Op-Ed supports sensible ...

BOSTON — Unless you live in Northern Texas, you might have missed the story. The dateline was Throckmorton and it was only a paragraph long. A father killed his three children as he was returning them ...

2001-06-28 04:00:00 PDT Houston-- If ever a man stood alone, it was Russell Yates, who paced at the head of a dim brown church and choked down sobs long enough to eulogize his slain children yesterday ...

FACTS:The facts, as alleged by the court of appeals, are as follows: Andrea Pia Yates married in 1993 and had three children over the next four years. In 1998, Yates at some point told her husband ...

HOUSTON — A slumped, blank-faced Andrea Pia Yates was sentenced to life in prison Friday after a jury agreed in half an hour to spare the life of the mentally ill housewife, who drowned her five ...