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.