'Stand your ground' has become a get-out-of-jail-free license to kill After the most recent Florida incident, members of Congress demand answers on a law that leaves black America vulnerable.

Understanding "stand your ground" laws 07:03. A White man claiming self-defense after he shot a Black teenager this week when he rang the doorbell of his Kansas City home has reignited the debate ...

Missouri, Florida, Texas, Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania are among the states with “stand your ground” laws, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Most such laws have ...

About 35 states have enacted some form of "stand your ground" laws — or expanded "castle doctrine" laws — in the decade following Traymon Martin's shooting death.

"Stand your ground" laws, Hassan notes, "go further" because they "apply anyplace where a person has a legal right to be, not just at home." He cites Florida's law as an example.

Stand your ground makes the standard fascist claim: everyone agrees except you, and we’re all defending ourselves against you. Once a group starts making that claim, ...

The first “stand your ground” law was in Florida. It was something that was put forward by the NRA. The NRA wrote it, and then they got two Florida lawmakers to co-author the bill and get it ...

The case was closed with state attorneys citing stand-your-ground law and contradictory statements from those involved and ...

Brennan Wakey listens to testimony during a stand your ground hearing Friday in Sarasota, Wakey, 28, is charged with second degree murder and altering, concealing evidence in connection to a 2021 ...