User:Tracymn/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Insanity defense

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have always had interest in this topic. I have done smaller amounts of research on it before and I was excited to have the opportunity to go more in depth on it.

Evaluate the article
Something that distracted me was the small blurb about intoxication. I think it didn't show relevance until the last sentence. I think it is also distracting to list countries that have maybe one sentence under them, I think it distracts from the article because it goes from the small one to two sentence blurbs to what seems like an entire essay on the United States. If the article is supposed to focus on the plea across the country then all of the countries need more elaboration, but if it is going to be a United States focus, then the other countries could be left out. Does a nice job on taking a neutral tone to the topic. Plenty of sources with working citations. The talks page shows lots of different authors chatting, but it looks like the article hasn't been reviewed, or at least had comments in the talk page, since 2017. Some commenters are pointing out incorrect information on the article. I think a relevant question would be is the purpose of the article to focus on the United States, or across the world?