Most American states have some form of stand-your-ground (SYG) laws, with the adoption of said legislation growing ...

Florida passed the nation’s first stand your ground law 20 years ago. Since then, 37 other states have followed suit, and ...

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

Florida's new open carry law, in combination with the state's "stand your ground" law, creates new freedoms for residents -- ...

Evidence shows that 20 years on, Florida’s stand your ground law hasn’t made communities in the state any safer.

Stand your ground laws effectively expand the boundaries of the castle doctrine to the wider world, removing the duty to retreat and allowing people to use lethal force anywhere they have a legal ...

Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, quickly announced that open carry is now “the law of the state,” directing law ...

Geeta Gandbhir’s film, which swept the recently concluded Critics Choice Documentary Awards, places Florida’s “Stand Your ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X In June 2023, one of Owens’ sons had an altercation with Lorincz after he went to retrieve his ...

In dismissing charges against Joshua Badillo, the judge still said the death and injuries from the 2022 shootout could have ...

Over a four-year span, from 2021 until 2024, Jacksonville had a larger share of its homicides classified as justifiable ...