A Florida bill that would eliminate the insanity defense barely squeaked by its first committee hearing Monday amid withering criticisms but only after the bill sponsor promised to make substantial ...

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

He’s charged with killing Christina Hamilton, and later, 19-year-old Cash Gaudio, who had no connection to him.

Legal experts have told the CDT that the defense is rarely used and not often successful.

Jennifer Stately is using the insanity defense in the case where she's accused of stabbing her 5-year-old and 6-year-old sons ...

NORTH HERO A Montreal woman accused of drowning her 8-year-old son in Lake Champlain plans an insanity defense at her trial, which has been delayed until next year. Louise Desnoyers, 49, is charged ...

THE HOSPITAL EVER SINCE. SO GOOD TO SEE WALKING OUT. YES. WELL, TOMORROW THE TRIAL BEGINS IN THE MURDER OF 14 YEAR-OLD RYAN ROGERS, A PALM BEACH GARDENS TEEN WHO WAS KILLED FOUR YEARS AGO. IT ROCKED ...

A man accused of shooting and killing a woman at a Collbran mobile home park in 2019 pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity ...

The jury in the James Eagan Holmes murder case in Colorado on July 16 rejected his insanity defense, finding him guilty of first-degree murder after he killed 12 people at a movie theater in Aurora, ...

A Lucas County judge has given the defense team representing a Toledo man accused of raping and murdering his 13-year-old daughter just over three weeks to declare whether they plan to argue that he ...

Semmie Lee Williams, accused of murdering 14-year-old Ryan Rogers, fired his lawyers and dropped his insanity plea on the eve of his trial. Williams now plans to represent himself in the trial for the ...