At Parkland Shooting Trial, Families Must Endure Grisly Evidence The nature of a death-penalty trial requires documenting brutal crimes in painful detail, even when the defendant’s guilt has never been in doubt.
After Parkland, One Question Remains: What Is Justice? Four years after the Hoyers lost their youngest child in the Florida school shooting, a jury will decide whether the killer should get the death penalty. The Hoyers had to decide, too.
For Families in Uvalde, Laws Limit Paths to Holding Police Accountable Police officers rarely face criminal charges for inaction, and limits on civil lawsuits shield school districts and the police.
Deadliest Mass Shootings Are Mostly by People 21 or Younger Six of the nine deadliest mass shootings in the United States since 2018 were by people who were 21 or younger, a shift from earlier decades.
A Unique American Ritual: The School Shooting From the University of Texas in 1966, to Columbine in 1999 and now Uvalde, the images of school shootings across America are almost indistinguishable.