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Regime Media Unsure About How to Report Biden's Death Row Commutations

Dec 24, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    78% Very Conservative

  • Reliability

    25% ReliablePoor

  • Policy Leaning

    42% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -36% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Today a Trump spokesman called Biden's decision "abhorrent" and said Trump will restore the rule of law when he takes office next month.
54% : President Biden commuting 37 sentences, and you're learning tonight, that's nearly all the prisoners on federal death row.
41% : Rachel Scott and Selina Wang go over the terms of the commutation, and who remains on death row.
40% : Tonight, three men remain on death row.
39% : So, now there are only three men who remain on federal death row, including one of the Boston marathon bombers and the mass shooters in the attacks on the Tree of Life Synagogue and the Mother Emanuel AME Church.
37% : And as president, he pauses federal executions.
37% : And as president, he pauses federal executions.
32% : It also makes them immune to President-Elect Donald Trump's promise to resume federal executions.
32% : It also makes them immune to President-Elect Donald Trump's promise to resume federal executions.
32% : Today is a good reminder of how long President Biden has been involved in criminal justice issues because nearly all the men who are on federal death row were there because of the 1994 crime bill he wrote as senator.
24% : And Pope Francis, whose Catholic Church opposes the death penalty, openly prayed this month that Biden, who is also Catholic, would commute death sentences.
21% : Today's move coming ahead of President-Elect Trump's plan to resume federal executions, halted under the Biden administration.
13% : First, take notice of anchor Jericka Duncan's weird frame of the commutations as needed in order to stop Trump.

*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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