![]() ![]() Say she did go crazy: Maybe she drowns one child-but five? That takes conviction it's not like someone who instantly regrets pulling a trigger. Mention the name Andrea Yates and you'll start an avalanche of questions and opinions. The immediate business at this competency hearing, Assistant District Attorney Joe Owmby explains to the jury of 11 women and one man, is whether "Yates is rational today-not was she rational at the time of the crime." He is asking for the death penalty in a state that leads the nation in executions and a county that leads Texas in putting people on death row. believes that, after three months of antipsychotic medication and treatment in the jail's psychiatric unit, she is competent to stand trial. But Harris County District Attorney Charles Rosenthal Jr. The defense team has entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. Last June, Yates drowned her five children one by one in the bathtub of her suburban Houston home. Then her bright orange jumpsuit-with the words 'County Jail' stenciled across the back-grabs my eye as surely as her unthinkable crime captured the national consciousness. But was it understandable? How did a clean-living, all-American woman like Andrea Yates snap? Suzanne O'Malley takes a hard look at a disturbing case that's riveted America.Īndrea Pia Yates is barely visible when I enter Judge Belinda Hill's packed Houston courtroom. Her crime-drowning her five children in a bathtub-was unthinkable. ![]()
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