Georgia does not have a single statute titled “Stand Your Ground.” These three statutes set the ground rules courts use when deciding whether a person’s use of force was justified. Georgia code ...

What happens when an armed civilian meets an armed state?

Five Sedgwick County Juvenile Intake and Assessment Center officers held a 135-pound, 17-year-old Cedric “C.J.” Lofton face down, pressure on his back, until he died in 2021. Can anyone reasonably ...

The Netflix documentary tells the true story of Ajike “AJ” Owens, who was shot and killed by her neighbor, Susan Lorincz In 2024, Lorincz was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 25 years in ...

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, is facing calls to resign over recent comments she made about our state’s ...

Gun control advocates say states need to rethink the laws. "Stand your ground laws," have proliferated around the country after they were first introduced in Florida in 2005, with proponents ...

"Stand your ground" doesn't mean "anything goes" in Texas. Here's what to know about when using force is actually legal.

How many people have to die before we take a hard look at the stand-your-ground defense in Texas? How long before the message gets out that this will-nilly shooting of people on your property is a bad ...

Cohen is the author of the new book Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's 50-Year Battle for a More Unjust America It was big news last week when prosecutors charged George Zimmerman with ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...