Not guilty by reason of insanity: What this controversial verdict means

This spring, a man charged with murdering a pregnant Seattle woman was found “not guilty by reason of insanity.” This verdict ...
The Hill

Don’t abolish the insanity defense

The insanity defense, a bedrock principle of American criminal justice, is suddenly in peril. Aberrant laws in Kansas and four other states have decreed that a defendant can be guilty even if ...

Texas senators examine how the state handles violent offenders found not guilty by reason of insanity

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Nine years ago Harrison Brown, a freshman at the University of Texas at Austin, had just finished playing ...
Los Angeles Times

Editorial: The insanity defense isn’t available in every state. It should be

A longstanding principle of Anglo-American law is that a defendant shouldn’t be held criminally responsible for his behavior if mental illness made it impossible for him to tell right from wrong. Yet ...
New York Magazine

The Insanity Attack

The definition of insanity, as Albert Einstein once famously put it, is to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell last week ...
CNN

Don’t rely on insanity defense

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 ...