Voice of America Article Rating

US Court Upholds Death Sentence for Church Shooter Dylann Roof

Aug 26, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    6% Center

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    -44% Medium Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -15% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : Middleton said he is personally opposed to the death penalty but had accepted that as the sentence Roof received.
40% : Following his federal trial, Roof was given nine consecutive life sentences after pleading guilty in 2017 to state murder charges, leaving him to await execution in a federal prison and sparing his victims and their families the burden of a second trial.
30% : The review comes after a historic run of capital punishment at the end of the Trump administration, which carried out 13 executions in six months.

*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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