The Independent Article Rating

Racist mass killer Dylann Roof suffers setback in legal bid to avoid execution

Oct 13, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -52% Medium Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    -52% Medium Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -2% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : We join high-profile executives like Ariana Huffington, Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, and Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson as part of this initiative and are making a pledge to highlight the injustices of the death penalty in our coverage.
41% : The RBIJ has attracted more than 150 well-known signatories to their Business Leaders Declaration Against the Death Penalty - with The Independent as the latest on the list.
40% : The Independent and the nonprofit Responsible Business Initiative for Justice (RBIJ) have launched a joint campaign calling for an end to death penalty in the US.
39% : The first person sentenced to death for a federal hate crime in the US lost his latest bid to avoid execution for the murder of nine black church members in South Carolina.

*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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