City prosecutors declined to file charges, but the incident led to calls to protect people acting in self-defense. Hawaiʻi’s ...

The laws began to appear in states after a bill featuring the language "has the right to stand his or her ground" was introduced in Florida in 2005. When defendants use a stand your ground law to ...

Protesters occupied the first floor of the Capitol for weeks in a futile effort to repeal “stand your ground” in 2013. It got ...

Now, upwards of 30 states have some form of the law and recent research indicates they're associated with more deaths - as many as 700 additional gun killings each year, according to a study ...

A Florida court has dismissed charges against a 79-year-old man who invoked a controversial self-defense law after fatally shooting his neighbor’s adult son as he trimmed tree limbs — and ...

The 2025 agenda for the nine Republicans in the state House of Representatives is wide-ranging but highlighted by measures ...

Authorities said they cannot charge the unidentified 58-year-old female shooter until detectives can prove that she did not act in self-defense due to Florida’s stand-your-ground laws.

The only thing "stand your ground" laws do is make it so that "every U.S. postal worker, every Amazon delivery person, every pizza delivery person, every Girl Scout volunteer, anybody knocking on ...

Read full article: Florida man claims ‘Stand Your Ground’ defense in 2023 shooting of neighbor who was trimming trees 78-year-old Florida man shoots, kills neighbor who was trimming trees over ...

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 ...