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 ...

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 ...

Twenty years ago, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed the first “stand your ground” law, calling it a “good, common-sense, ...

PHOENIX - A little-noticed change in state law two years ago could leave Arizona vulnerable to the same kind of incident that resulted in the death of a Florida teen. Arizona adopted its own "stand ...

The Wall Street Journal analyzed the number of justifiable homicides reported by police agencies that consistently posted monthly crime data to the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System from ...

Citing Florida’s stand-your-ground law, a judge Friday dismissed a murder charge against a DeLeon Springs man who fatally shot his neighbor during a confrontation over tree-trimming. Edward Stanley ...

Joshua Badillo was charged in a 2022 fatal shooting outside a Haines City bar involving members of a biker club. The judge ruled Badillo was immune from prosecution, stating he acted in self-defense ...