Stephen Colbert and Rep. Maxwell Frost discussed dangers of masked ICE agents in "Stand Your Ground" states on Thursday, with ...

"The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert questioned whether Florida's "Stand Your Ground" laws put masked ICE agents at risks ...

"Stand your ground" self-defense laws have been back in the news recently, although it is not clear why. That mystery highlights longstanding journalistic confusion on this subject, which ...

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 over "stand your ground" laws. Andrew D.

Missouri is one of about 30 states with a “stand your ground” law. New York is not, but defendants there and elsewhere can argue that their actions are protected by what is known as the ...

Two recent cases of unarmed people being shot and killed in the US have renewed discussion of so-called "stand your ground" laws. In the past week, 16-year-old Ralph Yarl was shot twice after ...

Those include stand your ground statutes, which allow individuals to use deadly force in dangerous situations even when they could have safely retreated from the encounter. "If this is the sort of ...

Ralph Yarl: Prosecutors charge Kansas City homeowner for shooting teen Experts say these unpredictable acts of violence are made worse by so-called “Stand Your Ground” laws, provisions that ...

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

“What those trigger are, at trial, jury instructions at court if they deem necessary to say here are what the rules are in ...

Missouri is among more than 30 states that have adopted some version of stand your ground laws over the past two decades, said Robert Spitzer, a professor emeritus of political science at the ...