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Missouri NAACP president wants Marcellus Williams exonerated - Missourinet

  • Bias Rating

    -48% Medium Liberal

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -50% Medium Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -57% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. 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.

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-33% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : "In Missouri, only DNA evidence can be used to exonerate somebody on death row," he said.
37% : "For a black man to be accused of committing a crime against a white woman where there was a murder involved and he's poor and without power, you can have a better expectation that he's going to end up on death row than anybody else," he said.
31% : Williams was originally scheduled to die by lethal injection in August of 2017, and his latest date with the executioner is this Tuesday, unless Parson or a higher court steps in.

*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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