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On July 31, 2001, a Houston grand jury indicted thirty-six year old, Andrea Pia Yates was charged for capital murder and capable of being sentenced to death for the murders of her five children. Is Andrea Yates insane or sick? Insanity is strictly a legal term, not a clinical term, the definition of which varies by jurisdiction. In most jurisdictions, this legal concept means a severe mental illness extant at the time the crime was committed such that the illness substantially impaired the defendant's capacity to understand and appreciate the moral wrongfulness of the act. A small minority of jurisdictions differentiate moral and legal wrongfulness. Another minority of jurisdictions have a two pronged definition that includes the aforementioned wrongfulness or knowledge prong and add an alternative criteria of inability to conform conduct to the requirements of the law, that is, the illness rendered the defendant unable to behave or act in conformance with the law, regardless of whether or not the defendant understood the moral or legal wrongfulness.The film A Beautiful Mind details the peculiar twist of mental illness in the case of John Nash, a brilliant economist who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia much of his life.
Approximate Word count = 657
Approximate Pages = 2.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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