Since 2005, more than 20 states have passed some form of a stand-your-ground law. These let people use deadly force to defend themselves even if they can safely retreat.

Additionally, there are far fewer white-on-black shootings in the FBI data — only 25 total in both the Stand Your Ground and non-Stand Your Ground states.

Stand Your Ground laws upend public safety standards by encouraging people to act as vigilantes, broadening the scope of self-defense claims in shootings.

Man to stand trial on charges he gave nephew lethal dose of methadone Published: Apr. 30, 2008, 10:24 p.m.

Caroline Light, author of “Stand Your Ground: The History of America’s Love Affair With Lethal Self-Defense.” (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) This article is more than 7 years old.

New details about the death of a woman found in a locked storage unit that later caught fire were revealed in court Thursday, Jan. 23.

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (CBS) -- A preliminary hearing for a Phoenixville man who is charged with first degree murder for allegedly shooting a lethal dose of cocaine into the arm of a 27-year-old woman.

A three-hour standoff with a man telling law officers to shoot him ended Friday when authorities hit him with a non-lethal shot then moved in to subdue him.