At the beginning of the year, two major trials featuring the insanity defense were set to demonstrate on a grand stage how we as a country perceive the defense. The first of those cases was the ...

Republicans have a simple message going into the 2022 elections: Stop the insanity. But with that message comes a reminder. You can’t stop the insanity by being equally insane. Susan Powter created a ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Bryan Kohberger, the suspected killer accused in the University of Idaho murders, will be unable to plead not guilty by ...

A longstanding principle of Anglo-American law is that a defendant shouldn’t be held criminally responsible for his behavior if mental illness made it impossible for him to tell right from wrong. Yet ...

The definition of insanity, as Albert Einstein once famously put it, is to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell last week ...