Durham DA's Office will not seek death penalty in Faith Hedgepeth murder case

Sep 28, 2021 View Original Article
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    -56% Very Liberal

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    -56% Very Liberal

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Bias Score Analysis

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"Deberry was elected on a platform of criminal justice reform, which included opposition to the death penalty."
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-18% Liberal
"A notice signed by District Attorney Satana Deberry was filed in Superior Court on Tuesday declaring the case against Miguel Enrique Salguero-Olivares non-capital, meaning prosecutors will not seek the death penalty."
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-22% Liberal
"The Durham County District Attorney's Office does not plan to pursue the death penalty against the man charged with killing UNC-Chapel Hill student Faith Hedgepeth."
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-24% Liberal
"Greene gave a viral interview with former Trump national security advisor Steve Baon on his War Room podcast on September 16, where she encouraged the government to shut down over the spending bill."
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-8% Liberal
"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer switched his vote to a no to allow him call for another vote on the policy."
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-20% Liberal
"Greene said before claiming that Americans don't need the government to fix the country's infrastructure."
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-22% Liberal
"If a shutdown occurs, it could cripple the U.S. economy as it struggles to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and harm the reputation of the Biden administration."
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-28% Liberal
"GOP lawmakers have said that they want the Democrats to lift the debt limit on their own, but Democrats say that much of the national debt was incurred under former Republican President Donald Trump."
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-28% Liberal
"Silly Marjorie, Greene, a Georgia GOP representative, tweeted on Tuesday, along with a photo of the bill on a desk."
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-34% Liberal
"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McCoell accused the Democrats of playing politics for rejecting a GOP proposal he said could avoid a Friday government shutdown."
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-38% Liberal
"A spokesperson for Greene told Newsweek that the sarcastic tweets were intended to mock the ridiculous spending by the Democrats."
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-40% Liberal
"Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday mocked the $3.5 trillion spending bill Democrats are trying to pass in the Senate this week, claiming to have read the 3,000-word document and saying that it has allocated $25 million each to support desert fish, fresh water mussels, butterflies, and endangered plants in Hawaii."
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-48% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : Deberry was elected on a platform of criminal justice reform, which included opposition to the death penalty.
39% : A notice signed by District Attorney Satana Deberry was filed in Superior Court on Tuesday declaring the case against Miguel Enrique Salguero-Olivares non-capital, meaning prosecutors will not seek the death penalty.
38% : The Durham County District Attorney's Office does not plan to pursue the death penalty against the man charged with killing UNC-Chapel Hill student Faith Hedgepeth.

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