Washington Post Article Rating

Opinion | The death penalty just won't die

Feb 05, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -46% Medium Liberal

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -44% Medium Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    48% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Overall Sentiment

-9% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : The nitrogen gas method was necessary because it has become increasingly difficult for jurisdictions to acquire the deadly cocktails of sedatives and heart-stopping toxins needed for lethal injections.
41% : Tennessee reinstated the electric chair as its default method if lethal injection is unavailable.
39% : With the shortage of these chemicals becoming ever more acute, criminal justice officials have been devising creative methods to dispose of human beings on death row.

*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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