KHOU 11 Houston Article Rating

Fact sheet: What to know about Texas death row

Apr 22, 2022 View Original Article
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    60% Medium Conservative

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  • Policy Leaning

    -60% Medium Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    17% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Lethal injection was adopted as a means of execution in 1977.
53% :Five methods of execution are used in the United States:
47% : The Texas Department of Criminal Justice provides a history of Texas Death Row and statistics on its website.
42% : Interview with a death row inmate | Awaiting execution, Carl Wayne Buntion talks to KHOU 11 NewsBetween 1819 and 1923, inmates were executed by hanging.
40% : A total of 361 inmates were electrocuted before capital punishment was deemed "cruel and unusual punishment" by the Supreme Court in 1972.
40% : Billie Coble was 70 years old at the time of execution, but will no longer hold the oldest inmate executed once the 78-year-old Buntion is put to death for killing a Houston police officer.
39% : The average time for an inmate is 11.22 years, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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