Editor’s Note: The above video is from the 2 year anniversary of the UNC shooting. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WGHP) — The man accused in the 2023 shooting that killed a professor at the University of North ...

A Florida bill that would eliminate the insanity defense barely squeaked by its first committee hearing Monday amid withering criticisms but only after the bill sponsor promised to make substantial ...

There are times when the insanity defense, with all the controversy that surrounds it, is in the news. This is one of those times: It is highly likely that James Holmes, who is facing 142 felony ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to consider how far states can go toward eliminating the insanity defense in criminal trials as it reviews the case of a Kansas man sentenced to die ...

Kentucky lawmakers filed a bill this session that would eliminate the insanity defense in the state. "Logan's Law" is named for a 6-year-old boy who was murdered in his home in 2015. Ronald Exantus, ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - A man accused of killing a 19-year-old and the mother of his child in Lynchburg is asking a court to re-evaluate his sanity to use as a possible defense at trial. He’s charged ...

A murder case—closed for years before a WWL Louisiana Investigation revived it—took another turn in court Friday, as the woman accused of killing her boyfriend in a downtown New Orleans hotel room ...

HB 422 seeks to eliminate the "not guilty by reason of insanity" defense and tighten eligibility for a mandatory early release program. The legislative push is a response to the release of a man who ...