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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Steven M. Tomporowski has admitted killing his parents and his uncle in the family’s remote Wisconsin farmhouse in February, yet his attorney argues that the Westchester teenager was not responsible ...

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 ...

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 ...