Alabama inmate set to become first-ever to be executed with nitrogen gas | WSBT
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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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| "His attorneys accuse Alabama of trying to make their client a test subject -- essentially a guinea pig -- for an experimental new execution method after the state failed to kill him via lethal injection in 2022." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "The entire proposal for nitrogen gas was the product of a 14-page report made by a criminal justice professor, Coria Barrett Lain, a law professor at the University of Richmond writing a book on lethal injection, told Scientific America." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "The Alabama attorney general's office noted that Smith, when previously fighting lethal injection, had suggested nitrogen as an alternative execution method." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
44% : His attorneys accuse Alabama of trying to make their client a "test subject" -- essentially a guinea pig -- for an experimental new execution method after the state failed to kill him via lethal injection in 2022.43% : The entire proposal for nitrogen gas was the product of a 14-page report made by a criminal justice professor," Corinna Barrett Lain, a law professor at the University of Richmond writing a book on lethal injection, told Scientific America.
40% : The Alabama attorney general's office noted that Smith, when previously fighting lethal injection, had suggested nitrogen as an alternative execution method.
35% : Furthermore, the United Nations has cautioned that the procedure could be considered torture.
*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.