caption motive date children conviction birth_place name fatalities birth_date spouse article_title weapons birth_name
yates in court postpartum psychosis 1964 7 2 -lrb- 51 -rrb- noah aged 7 at death -rrb- john samuel , b. december jacob 15 , 1995 -lrb- aged 5 at death -rrb- paul , abraham , b. september 13 , 1997 -lrb- aged 3 b. at death -rrb- luke david , b. february 15 , february 1999 -lrb- aged 2 at death -rrb- mary deborah , 26 b. november 30 , 2000 -lrb- aged 6 months at , death -rrb- all children killed june 20 , 2001 1994 -lrb- acquitted reason of insanity hallsville , texas , united states andrea yates 5 2 july 1964 rusty -rrb- yates -lrb- 1993 -- 2004 -rrb- -lrb- divorced andrea yates
 water andrea pia kennedy
andrea yates

andrea pia kennedy yates -lrb- born july 2 , 1964 -rrb- is a former resident of houston , texas , who confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub on june 20 , 2001 .
she had been suffering for some time with very severe postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis .
she was represented by houston criminal defense attorney george parnham .
chuck rosenthal , the district attorney in harris county , asked for the death penalty in her 2002 trial .
her case placed the m'naghten rules with the irresistible impulse test , a legal test for sanity , under close public scrutiny in the united states .
she was convicted of capital murder .
after the guilty verdict , but before sentencing , the state abandoned its request for the death penalty in light of false testimony by one of its expert psychiatric witnesses .
she was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years .
the verdict was overturned on appeal .
on july 26 , 2006 , the texas jury in her retrial found that yates was not guilty by reason of insanity .
she was consequently committed by the court to the north texas state hospital , vernon campus , a high-security mental health facility in vernon , where she received medical treatment and was a roommate of dena schlosser , another woman who committed filicide by killing her infant daughter .
in january 2007 , yates was moved to a low security state mental hospital in kerrville .
