...opening statements. ''The defendant in his mind thinks these people were evil and deserved to die.'' Harris County District Attorney John B. Holmes said, and a police technician later testified, that fingerprints on a jewelry box, a button...

...God handed them. But in her downtown jail cell, a weary-eyed Andrea Yates faces capital murder charges. Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal said Tuesday that he'll decide, at some point in the next three weeks, whether to seek...

...concluded Yates is fit to stand trial. "The decision (to seek the death penalty) was made a long time ago," Harris County District Attorney Charles Rosenthal said. Yates faces capital murder charges in the drowning deaths of her children, whose...

...are eligible for the death penalty. "I want to hold her accountable for the death of those children," Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal has said. "That's my job, to hold people accountable for what they do." Charges are...