HOUSTON — Both sides rested in Andrea Yates' murder trial Thursday morning.

The judge excused jurors until Monday, when they will hear jury instructions and closing arguments. Jurors will be sequestered during their deliberations.

Yates, 42, is accused of the June 20, 2001, drowning deaths of her five children, Noah, 7, John, 5, Paul, 3, Luke, 2, and Mary, 6 months.

This is her second trial.

Jurors in her 2002 trial deliberated less than four hours to find Yates guilty. She was sentenced to life in prison after the panel rejected the death penalty.

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Yates was granted a new trial in 2005 by an appeals court, which found she did not receive a fair trial due to the erroneous testimony of a state medical expert.

Yates has twice pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

Yates had a history of postpartum psychosis, major depression and two suicide attempts before she drowned her children and laid their bodies on her bed, covering them with a sheet. Noah, the eldest, was left floating face-down in the tub.

Prosecutors say that even if Yates were mentally ill, she knew that drowning her children was wrong, and therefore, she does not meet Texas' legal standard of insanity.

The defense says Yates understood her actions were illegal, but she believed they were right, because she was acting under the delusion that she was sending her children to God, and saving them from Satan.

If jurors find Yates guilty, she faces life in prison.

If she is found not guilty by reason of insanity, she will be remanded to a state psychiatric hospital and her case will be regularly monitored.