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Yates was convicted of capital murder, but the jury refused the death penalty option. She was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after forty years. The verdict was overturned on appeal, in light of false testimony by one of the supposed expert psychiatric witnesses.
On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates of Houston drowned her five kids in the bathtub but was acquitted of murder after being ruled insane. Andrea Yates suffered from postpartum psychosis and depression, causing delusions that led her to kill her five young children.
In March 2002, a jury rejected the insanity defense and found Yates guilty of capital murder, sentencing her to life in prison with eligibility for parole in 40 years.
Found guilty of capital murder in 2002, she was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years. Yates' attorneys appealed and the verdict was overturned. The...
Yates, now 51, was convicted of capital murder for the high-profile 2001 killings of her four sons and baby daughter. She was sentenced to life in prison, but her conviction was overturned on...
Yates was charged with five counts of capital murder. The prosecution called the crime “heinous” and advocated for the death penalty.
Former nurse Andrea Yates, whose postnatal mental illness led her to drown her five children, had her life sentence overturned at a retrial earlier this year, after successfully pleading insanity. Faith McLellan reviews the case and its implications for mental health in the criminal justice system.
