Andrea Yates and the Insanity Defense On June 20th, 2001, Andrea Yates, a 36-year-old mother of five, drowned all five of her children one at a time in the bathroom tub. She then calmly called 911 and then her husband telling him "It's time. I finally did it." When she was inter...

For as long as society has existed it has been made up of two categories of people, law abiding citizens and menaces to society. Today these menaces to society are more commonly called criminal offenders. As long as we have criminal offenders we are going to need some type of sanction to detain, ...

Executing the Death Penalty The implementation of capital punishment in the United States today has become a seldom-used means to deter crime. The death penalty was established in order to punish those who are guilty and to discourage those who contemplate committing heinous crimes from doing...