Arsonist who burned 36 people alive sentenced to die by 'long drop hanging'

  • Bias Rating

    -10% Center

  • Reliability

    45% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

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.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

-70% Negative

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"Hideaki Hatta, company president, welcomed the verdict today but said that the thought of all our employees who perished... just breaks my heart."
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28% Conservative
"There is overwhelming public support for the practice - a 2019 government survey found that 80 per cent of Japanese people saw the death penalty as unavoidable and only nine per cent voted to abolish it."
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-10% Liberal
"At the end of 2023, 107 people were on death row."
Negative
-24% Liberal
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Hideaki Hatta, company president, welcomed the verdict today but said that the "thought of all our employees who perished... just breaks my heart".
45% : There is overwhelming public support for the practice - a 2019 government survey found that 80 per cent of Japanese people saw the death penalty as "unavoidable" and only nine per cent voted to abolish it.
38% : At the end of 2023, 107 people were on death row.
37% : Critics argue that Japan leaves death row inmates on tenterhooks in solitary confinement for years before they are given little or no warning at all and executed.

*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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