US AUTHORITIES have charged a Texas mother with capital murder for allegedly beating two of her young sons, aged six and eight, to death with rocks.

A judge today sentenced a 44-year-old woman to death for killing three of her four sons.

A US Army soldier accused of murdering her two young children by drowning them in the bathtub at their home gave tearful testimony today before a court-martial in the western German city of Mannheim.

Andrea Yates is beginning her life sentence today after being found guilty of murdering her five children.

Prosecutors seeking the death penalty for Texas housewife Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children, would face an uphill battle, legal experts said before today’s punishment phase of the trial.

Defence lawyers today launched efforts to save Andrea Yates from execution after she was convicted of murder for drowning her five children in the bath.

Andrea Yates, the 37-year-old housewife who admitted she drowned her five children, has been convicted of murder by a US jury that rejected her claim of insanity.

A jury was today sent out to deliberate a 37-year-old mother was in her right mind when she drowned her five children in the bath.

Andrea Yates and her husband sobbed and mouthed words of encouragement to each other in court while a video-tape was played of their children.

Andrea Yates, the mother who drowned her five children while her husband was at work, considered stabbing them but decided it was too bloody.

The trial of a woman accused of drowning her five children in a bath will hinge on testimony from doctors who talked to her before and after the deaths.

Andrea Yates sobbed during her murder trial yesterday as prosecutors showed the jury in Houston, Texas, a picture of four of her drowned children on a bed and a video-tape of her fifth child floating face down in a bathtub.

Andrea Yates, the mother who drowned her five children in the bathtub, called her husband at work that day to say ‘‘she finally did it,’’ a jury at her murder trial in Texas was told.

The trial of a woman facing the death penalty for drowning her five young children has heard of the scene of horror which greeted police.

The trial of a woman facing the death penalty for drowning her five young children was due to begin today.

The father of five children allegedly drowned by their mother choked with grief as he spoke at their funeral service.

A mother who confessed to killing her five children while suffering post-natal depression may be pregnant again.