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Lebanon's parliament approves abolition of death penalty

  • Bias Rating

    -92% Very Left

  • Reliability

    10% ReliableLimited

  • Policy Leaning

    -92% Very Left

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : The European Union welcomed the move, saying Lebanon was setting "a powerful example for other countries" in the Middle East and beyond.
40% : Lebanon's parliament on Tuesday abolished the death penalty and replaced all existing death sentences with life imprisonment, the speaker's office said in a statement.
39% : Crimes that were punishable with a death sentence included murder and treason.
37% : Last year, Lebanese lawmakers submitted a law to abolish capital punishment.
22% : The move formally ends capital punishment, after maintaining a de facto moratorium on executions since 2004, although dozens of people had remained technically 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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