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Andrea Yates Was Sentenced To Life In Prison

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Yates was sentenced to life in prison in 2002 after being convicted of capital murder for drowning her 5 children, ranging from 6 months to 7 years old. Andrea Yates story begins two years before the incident. After the birth of her fourth child, she attempted suicide, and was diagnosed with postpartum depression and psychosis. A month after her first diagnosis, she attempted suicide again. About a year after her attempted suicide, she became pregnant with her fifth child. During her pregnancy, her father died and her psychosis returns and she was given medication to treat it. Two days before she murdered her children, Andrea and her husband Rusty went to the doctors in an attempt to get the doctors to switch her medication. The day of incident,

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