The fatal shooting in early November of a house cleaner who mistakenly went to the wrong address in Indiana feels hauntingly ...

Maria Florinda Rios Perez De Velasquez’s mistaken arrival at the wrong Indiana address Wednesday cost her her life. As the ...

WEWS: Ayesha Bell Hardaway, co-director of the Social Justice Institute, director of the Social Justice Law Center and an assistant professor at the School of Law, commented on a new Ohio law, saying ...

Your home is your castle” it is a saying that has informed centuries of self-defense law. But when deadly force is used, the ...

Many states across the U.S. have "Stand Your Ground" laws, which is legislation that removes the duty to retreat during a threatening confrontation and allows for the use of deadly force as ...

Florida was the first state to pass the contentious law in 2005 and it has since expanded Christopher Rudolph is a contributing writer for PEOPLE. He previously covered entertainment at The Advocate, ...