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Relief, defiance, anger: Families and advocates react to Biden's death row commutations
Read full article: Relief, defiance, anger: Families and advocates react to Biden's death row commutationsVictims’ 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.
Ex-officer appeals 20-year sentence for killing Black man
Read full article: Ex-officer appeals 20-year sentence for killing Black manA former police officer serving 20 years in prison for killing an unarmed Black man running away from a South Carolina traffic stop said his lawyer never told him about a plea offer from prosecutors that could have cut years off his sentence.
SC church attacked by white supremacist under investigation
Read full article: SC church attacked by white supremacist under investigationEmanuel 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.