Victims’ families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions are sharing a range of emotions, from relief to anger, after President Joe Biden commuted dozens of the sentences.

A judge has upheld a 20-year prison sentence for a white former police officer in the killing of an unarmed Black man in South Carolina.

A white former police officer serving 20 years in prison for killing an unarmed Black man who ran from a South Carolina traffic stop said his lawyer never told him about an initial plea offer from prosecutors.

A member of the Emanuel AME Church looks onto the building after a massacre that left nine of its members dead on June 17, 2015. CHARLESTON, S.C. - An investigation into the handling of funds at Charleston's historically black Mother Emanuel AME Church found no evidence of wrongdoing, investigators said. The church was the site of a 2015 massacre by a white supremacist who killed nine African-Americans during Bible study. In the aftermath of the killings, Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church received millions of dollars in donations. Althea Latham, a former church secretary, told The Post and Courier newspaper last month she had spoken to SLED investigators about the donations.

Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church's former secretary spoke to South Carolina Law Enforcement Division investigators about donations the church received after the 2015 shooting. CHARLESTON, S.C. - South Carolina authorities are investigating the historic African-American church that was targeted by a white supremacist in a 2015 massacre in Charleston, authorities say, but details are few. The donations that Latham reportedly discussed with SLED were the subject of a wrongful termination lawsuit she filed against the church in 2016. Families were upset that the church kept more money than it doled out to the victims, Savage said. Each of the nine victims' immediate families received $150,000.