Insanity Defense

No Cash For Insanity Test

AP | JAY REEVES | Posted 05.08.2012

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Finances are threatening to delay the trial of a university professor charged with killing three colleagues – the secon...

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Insanity Defense For Young Suspect Of Neo-Nazi Murder?

AP | By AMY TAXIN | Posted 07.05.2011

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RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The public defender for a 10-year-old boy charged with murdering his neo-Nazi father in the family's California home says he migh...

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Mary Lamb's Not-So-Gentle Madness

Carolyn Vega | Posted 06.21.2011

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Carolyn Vega

William Hazlitt described Lamb as the most "reasonable woman" he ever knew. Reasonable seems an odd choice to describe a woman who, in a "fit of mania," killed her mother with a kitchen knife.

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Man Convicted Of Killing Another Man And Eating Part Of His Lung

AP | Posted 05.30.2011

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee man has been convicted of killing a man in a bar and eating his flesh. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that ...

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Man Blames Dream For Wife's Murder

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

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A former Chicago high school basketball standout tearfully told a courtroom full of friends and family today that he doesn't know why he stabbed his w...

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The Blago-Sphere

Craig Bloomfield | Posted 05.25.2011

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Craig Bloomfield

A common response to the news goes something like this: "What is this guy, nuts?" In the end, Blago's nuttiness may be his best defense.

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