On June 2, 2023, in Ocala, Florida, Susan Lorincz shot and killed her neighbor Ajike “AJ” Owens through a locked front door ...

Florida passed the nation's first stand your ground law 20 years ago. Since then, 37 other states have followed suit, and research shows homicides have risen as a result.

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

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 ...

The combination of stand your ground and permitess/open carry is likely to make the Sunshine State far less safe.

The Boone County, Indiana Prosecutor's Office has charged a homeowner accused of fatally shooting a Guatemalan house cleaner ...

Officers found Maria Florinda Rios Perez De Velasquez, 32, dead on the front porch of a home in Whitestown, an Indianapolis ...

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

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

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 ...